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Marc Benioff Net Worth (2026)
Marc Benioff is Chair & CEO of Salesforce (CRM). Most of a public-company CEO’s on-paper wealth is their stake in that company — anchored here on the number you can verify.
ESTIMATED NET WORTH
$11.0 billion
Source: Forbes, 2026*
Of that, we can independently verify $3.8B: 22,041,486 CRM shares in their latest Form 4 (SEC ↗). The rest is the third-party estimate.
WHAT WE KNOW · FROM FILINGS
$3.8B
22,041,486 CRM shares (Form 4, 2026-04-22) × $172.68. Verify on SEC ↗
WHAT WE ESTIMATE
varies
Past cash compensation, sold shares, real estate, and other public holdings — estimable from records, but not exact.
WHAT CAN’T BE KNOWN
private
Private company stakes, trusts, cash, debts, and undisclosed assets. Anyone publishing these as a single number is guessing.
At a glance
| Company | Salesforce (CRM) |
| Title | Chair & CEO |
| Verified stake | $3.8B |
| Shares owned | 22,041,486 |
| Latest total pay | $49M breakdown → |
| Age | ~62 |
HOW THIS IS CALCULATED
We take the shares Marc Benioff reports owning in their most recent SEC Form 4 and multiply by the latest share price. That gives a stake value you can check against the filing itself. Everything beyond that stake — real estate, private holdings, cash, past compensation — is estimated or simply not public, and we say so rather than roll it into one number.
BIOGRAPHY
Marc Benioff was born in San Francisco in 1964 and grew up in the Bay Area as personal computers were being born around him. He started programming as a teenager and, at 15, wrote and sold a game called How to Juggle, using the money to pay for college. He interned at Apple writing assembly code and studied business at the University of Southern California.
He joined Oracle straight out of college and spent 13 years there, becoming its youngest vice president at 26 under Larry Ellison. In 1999 he left to found Salesforce on a simple idea: business software delivered over the internet rather than installed on company servers.
That model, now called software as a service, became the default for the industry, and Salesforce grew into one of the largest software companies in the world. Benioff has stayed its chairman and chief executive throughout, and bought Time magazine and the workplace app Slack along the way.
As a founder who has led the company for its whole life, Benioff holds a meaningful equity stake, which is the bulk of the net worth this page estimates.
Born 1964 · University of Southern California (BS, Business Administration)
CAREER
1999-presentChair & CEO, Salesforce
1986-1999SVP, Oracle
NOTABLE
- Bought Time magazine with his wife for 190 million dollars in 2018.
- Created the 1-1-1 philanthropy model at Salesforce and has given more than 250 million dollars in Hawaii.
COMPENSATION HISTORY · from SEC proxy statements
| Fiscal year | Total pay |
|---|---|
| 2026 | $49M |
| 2025 | $55M |
| 2024 | $40M |
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*Estimated net worth is a third-party figure from Forbes (2026), not our own calculation; it is an estimate that changes with the market. The stake value is filing-derived and verifiable; any broader “net worth” is an estimate. Photo: Salesforce., CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons). Share counts are the latest reported on SEC filings and change as the executive trades; the price is the last close, so the stake value moves with the market. This is not an official or complete accounting of anyone’s wealth. Educational only — not investment advice.
