Marc Benioff’s Toughest Conversation with Kara Swisher

On with Kara Swisher

New York Magazine

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Kara has interviewed Salesforce CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff many times but he says she'd never been as prepared to grill him as she was this time. It’s a showdown between a savvy CEO who is deft at turning the tables…and an interviewer who is unafraid to pin him down. Taped in front of a live audience at the Upfront Summit, the two tackle whether Marc will be able to keep up the victory lap of a surprisingly strong earnings report, his succession plan, their divergent takes on a divisive Elon Musk – and why having activist investors breathing down his neck is “fun” for Benioff. Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or find us on Twitter @karaswisher and @nayeema Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone from New York Magazine in the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:15.8	This is Master Plan 26 from Elon Musk, yet another sequel, but with even fewer good ideas
0:21.4	to save the Earth.
0:22.4	I actually call it Master Bating.
0:24.7	Just kidding, this is on with Kara Swisher and I'm Kara Swisher.
0:28.8	Master Bating, alright, I'm Neymaraza, and he didn't have a good plan for investors,
0:34.0	but he had a plan to save us all Kara.
0:36.3	It was literally plagiarized from Bill Gates' book from two years ago that we did a podcast
0:40.6	with him on.
0:41.6	Not literally plagiarized, but okay.
0:44.3	Liberally borrowed from a literally borrowed from, yeah, heat pumps, you're kidding, wow,
0:48.1	we never thought about that.
0:49.1	Thanks for telling us Elon.
0:50.1	Until Elon comes to save us, you and I are here, we're sitting at the upfront summit
0:53.6	in LA.
0:54.6	It's nice to see you in real life, Kara Swisher.
0:55.6	Yes.
0:56.6	Even taller than I remembered.
0:57.6	No, I'm still short.
0:58.7	But big on stage, big on stage.
1:00.7	And just a little bit, you'll be big on stage with Mark Benioff, who you last interviewed,
1:04.6	I guess a little over a year ago, a code, right?
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