Marc Benioff

Mentor: Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison

How they met: Benioff worked at Oracle and Apple

Benioff before could start Salesforce, worked at Apple and Oracle, where he learned all the entrepreneurial lessons. He shares the advice that he got from Ellison – “"Always have a vision, be passionate, and act confident, even when you're not."

When Benioff was interviewd by Bloomberg, he was found appreciating and thanking Jobs for all his advices. He said, “Steve Jobs has probably given me more help and more advice than just about anybody. When I get in trouble, and when I get lost in my own vision, I’ve been fortunate to go and see him and he’s been able to show me the future a couple times when I got lost in the forest for the trees.”