Another COCEO bites the dust and we've got a bull versus bare debate on cloud infrastructure.

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I'm Chris Hill, joining me, Botley Fool Senior analyst, Emily Flippin.

Thanks for being here.

Thanks for having me, Chris.

It was one year ago today on our Market Followery podcast that the lead story was Salesforce

and the company's third quarter results, which were really good and they were overshadowed

by the news that CEO Mark Benioff was being joined by Brett Taylor as COCEO.

And here we are one year later and once again, Salesforce, third quarter profits and revenue

came in higher than expected.

And this is getting overshadowed again, Emily, by the news that Taylor is leaving the company.

We will get to the results in a minute, but I am struck by the fact that for the second

time in less than three years, a COCEO is leaving Mark Benioff and Salesforce.

And Benioff is not as sad about it in this commentary.

It makes you wonder if it was never quite a great relationship to begin with, but you

certainly do feel bad for Mark Benioff.

Now re-entering the role of sole CEO, he is the co-founder of Salesforce.

So he has been there since the beginning for this company.

But Brett Taylor was an operational CEO, if you will, to match Benioff's visionary tendencies.

So certainly the market did not appreciate this departure, not only because the tenure

was so short, but also because it raised the questions of, well, what's going on behind

the scenes in these relationships?

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