Mister Disrupter

摘要

Marc Benioff is in Hawaii on vacation. Which means that, aside from catching up with his family and stepping back from speaking gigs and customer visits, he's tinkering with new toys and new ideas. He's been playing with Google+. He's been cruising in a Chevy Volt-"the most fun car I've ever driven," he says. He's been trying out four tablet computers and having a fling with new Web-publishing software. The cofounder of Salesforce.com, which sells business software in the "cloud," says he has also been "aggressively" hanging out with young entrepreneurs. If s how he stays plugged into the current of innovation-which may lead to who knows where? Last fall he introduced Drew Houston, the 28-year-old cofounder of the file-sharing website Dropbox, to Pearl Jam. Months later Houston came to Benioff's San Francisco home when President Obama dropped in for a $35,800-a-plate dinner. Houston was there again when California Governor Jerry Brown broke bread with an exclusive tech crowd.