Marc Benioff simply can't let go. Beefy, intense, talkative, uninterruptible, jovial, sarcastic and relentless-his ferocious tenacity makes the cofounder of Salesforce.com a great pitchman. It also makes him irre-pressibly obsessive. Benioff constantly relives his public performances (did he prep enough? make his message come across? get the audience right? did they laugh?)-and sometimes revisits and dissects the keynotes of others.As when Larry Ellison recently paid him the ultimate backhanded compliment at Oracle OpenWorld, a big-tent revival for IT conventioneers, calling Salesforce "a very successful application on the Internet" In software terms that's like referring to a fellow male's assets as "adequate."
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