Marc Benioff
CEO, Salesforce
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Key Findings
Marc Benioff ranked #114 among 686 people covered at Davos 2026, receiving 188 media quotes as CEO at Salesforce. With 80% positive and 20% negative coverage, Marc was among the most favorably covered ceos at the forum.
- • Below-average media presence at Davos 2026
- • 80% positive coverage — among the most favorably covered ceos
- • Quoted across 10+ publications including CNBC and diginomica
- • Most discussed in context of AI (147 mentions)
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Sample Quotes
“This year you really saw something pretty horrific, which is these AI models became suicide coaches. We saw that '60 Minutes' session that was pretty well-documented that Character.AI kind of had an unregulated, untruthful, kind of untethered AI that was coaching children into suicide. I can't imagine anything worse than that. So, it can't be just growth at any cost. There has to be some regulation.”
“Things like Section 230 in the United States need to be reshaped because these tech companies will not be held responsible for the damage that they are basically doing to our families,”
“It has been the biggest, most exciting Davos ever. We had 70 heads of state and almost 1,000 CEOs”
“We're going to see some amazing growth this year. A lot of economists are saying three or four percent. I think some of the techno economists are saying it could go five or six percent. That would be absolutely amazing, especially in regards to this really low inflation that's happening right now. That's record levels of growth for the United States, and a lot of it is being driven from this incredible shift to AI.”
“"I'm on some plenaries. I'll moderate a panel. I'll do seven, eight, 10 interviews. So I have to have my narrative in my pocket, that's number one."”
“This year, you really saw something pretty horrific, which is these AI models became suicide coaches.”
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- Type
- CEO
- Title
- CEO
- Organization
- Salesforce