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Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

Salesforce’s Marc Benioff: Capitalism Must Change

Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

CNN

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.6538 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Salesforce Founder and CEO Marc Benioff is calling for a more compassionate capitalism amid Covid-19. He feels CEOs and businesses have the responsibility to think about all of their stakeholders, not just their shareholders. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

There once was a woman who lived in a shoe.

0:03.0

A size too snug, but what could she do?

0:06.0

But that's not where her story ends.

0:08.0

Thanks to a little help from her Experian friends,

0:11.0

she got her score into much better shape

0:13.0

and relocated to a box fresh new place,

0:16.0

with room to grow and a mortgage to suit.

0:19.0

Now, she lives in a spacious four-bedroom cowboy boots.

0:23.3

Better your Experian credit score to help get mortgage ready.

0:26.5

Experian.

0:27.5

Better your score.

0:28.7

Better your story.

0:31.6

Did you ever have a moment of doubt about capitalism and whether greed's a good idea

0:37.3

to run on.

0:38.3

What is greed? In the only cases in which the masses have escaped from the kind of grinding

0:44.3

poverty you're talking about, the only cases in recorded history are where they have had

0:49.3

capitalism and largely free trade. The record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way

0:57.1

so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the

1:03.9

productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

1:08.0

But it seems to reward not to be... That was the economist Milton Friedman,

1:12.5

being interviewed by Phil Donahue in 1979.

1:16.5

For decades, Friedman's ideas on capitalism

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