business Overview
HQplaceSan Francisco Bay Area
BusinessBusiness SaaS
Founded
access_time 24 years ago
(founded 1999)
TrueUp
Trajectory Score
78
/100
Employees
80,000
TrueUp
Rank
#18
Valuation
$219 billion
TrueUp
Rank
#15
all-time high: $305 B (-28%)
1 year ago: $157 B (+39%)
5 years ago: $127 B (+73%)
10 years ago: $41 B (+428%)
Public / PrivatePublic ($CRM)
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B2B SaaS

Salesforce is a Business SaaS company with 564 job openings. It is currently valued at $219 billion as a public company. 80,000 people work at Salesforce. The company was founded in 1999.

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work_outline Job Openings
564open jobs
TrueUp
Rank
#30
local_atm Financials
Valuation
$219 billion
TrueUp
Rank
#15
52 wk high: $220 B (-1%)
1 year ago: $157 B (+39%)
5 years ago: $127 B (+73%)
10 years ago: $41 B (+428%)
Revenue
trailing 12 months
$29 billion
TrueUp
Rank
#31
Revenue growth
vs. same quarter
last year
21.8%
TrueUp
Rank
#211
MULTIPLES
Valuation / Revenue7.5x
Valuation per employee$2.7 million
Revenue per employee$0.4 million
phonelink Products
Top products
- Sales Cloud
- Service Cloud
- Marketing Cloud
- Platform
- Slack (acq in 2020 for $27.7B)
- Tableau Software (acq in 2019 for $15.7B)
- Demandware (acq in 2016 for $2.8B)
- MuleSoft (acq in 2018 for $6.5B)
Other important products
- Heroku (acq in 2010 for $212M)
- Quip (acq in 2016 for $750M)
Primary customer type
business B2B
Is this really a tech company?
Definitely
remove Network effects
check Zero marginal costs to produce
check Product improves over time
check Zero cost to expand globally
check Self-serve onboarding + Zero cost of sales
emoji_people Culture
Glassdoor employee reviews
86%
would recommend Salesforce to a friend (15,450 reviews)
better than 74% of tech co's
88%
approve of the CEO Marc Benioff and Bret Taylor (6,187 reviews)
better than 59% of tech co's
Company values
- Trust
- Customer Success
- Innovation
- Equality
Company culture links
Our Salesforce culturenorth_east
salesforce.com/company/careers/culture/
Companies founded by former employees
- Veeva Systems (founded 2007)
- Zuora (founded 2007)
- Okta (founded 2009)
- Airtable (founded 2012)
code Open Source
Open source citizenship
sentiment_dissatisfied OK
TrueUp
Rank
#68
Top open source projects
12.6kapache / predictionio
8.4koclif / oclif
3.6kdatorama / akita
2.3ksalesforce / decaNLP
2.2ksalesforce / TransmogrifAI
2.1ksalesforce / ja3
1.8ksalesforce / ctrl
1.7ksalesforce / cloudsplaining
1.3ksalesforce / pytorch-qrnn
1.0kapache / phoenix
rule Policies
% of open jobs that are remote
5%
home_work Remote work policy
Remote work is common
public H1B sponsorships approved in 2022
194
TrueUp
Rank
#14
menu_book Popular books and movies
sentiment_dissatisfiednot available
history Other info
Associated billionaires
(source:Forbes)
$5.8B - Marc Benioff
IPO dateJun 23, 2004
(19 years ago)
Top owners at IPO
31.6% - Marc Benioff
10.2% - Halsey Minor
6.0% - Attractor Funds
2.7% - Parker Harris
2.3% - Magdalena Yesil
1.8% - David Moellenhoff
1.5% - Jim Steele
1.5% - Craig Ramsey
1.1% - Steve Cakebread
Founder ownership at IPO36.1%
Implied founder equity split
88% - Marc Benioff
7% - Parker Harris
5% - David Moellenhoff
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