Top 7 Successful Tech Leaders Who Can Sell Anything!
If you also want to make your mark in the world of tech, here is the list of the top seven successful tech leaders and the great salespeople as compiled by Business Insider.
Marc Benioff: Salesforce CEO
Marc Benioff is an American internet entrepreneur, founder, chairman, and CEO of Salesforce company. While Benioff was in high school he sold
his first application, How to Juggle, for $75. At the age of 15, he
founded Liberty Software, creating and selling games for the Atari 8-bit
computer among others.
Before founding salesforce.com, he was at
Oracle for 13 years in different executive positions in sales,
marketing, and product development. At 23, he was named Oracle's Rookie
of the Year and then three years later he was promoted to the company’s
youngest vice president. He was the creator of the term “platform as a
service” and had extended salesforce.com’s reach by allowing customers
to build their own applications on the company’s architecture.
Larry Ellison: Oracle co-founder
Billionaire tech pioneer Larry Ellison is one of the most profitable
runs for a leader in business history. He has been Oracle’s CEO since he
founded the company in 1977. Over 35 years of Ellison’s experience, he
has built the company into one of the world’s largest database software businesses and one of the biggest providers of business programs.
As he
created a super-charged sales environment at Oracle, with his sales
strategies he has turned Oracle into a $38 billion-in-revenue giant
today.
Steve Jobs: Apple co-founder
Steve Jobs basically defined what it means to lead tech companies.
He created the most innovative tech company of all time—Apple. He had
the two main characteristics—good decision-making ability and a great
personality that every tech leader needs.
Apple is now one of the most
valuable companies in selling iPhones in the world. Jobs also succeed in producing the NeXT Computer in his NeXTStep hardware industry.
Steve Ballmer: LA Clipper Owner
Steven Ballmer is a businessman who was the CEO of Microsoft till 2014
also he is the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. He was Microsoft's
very first salesman. In 2015, his personal wealth is estimated to
be $22.722.7 Bn ranking number 21 on the Forbes 400. Under Ballmer's
tenure as CEO, Microsoft's annual revenue had increased and some people
saw his took over of CEO role as “the triumph of sales over technology and
innovation.”
Michael Dell: Dell CEO
While Michael Dell was in high school he started earning by selling
newspaper subscriptions. Later on, following the simple idea of selling
customized personal computer systems directly to customers, he could best
understand their needs and provide the most effective computing
solutions to meet customers needs. He has made Dell Computer Corp. the
world's leading direct computer systems company.
Mark Cuban: Dallas Mavericks Owner
Mark Cuban started his career selling computer software from which he
made $15,000 sale in just 9 months. After his college life, Cuban moved
to Dallas, Texas, and created a computer consulting business called
MicroSolutions which transformed him into a millionaire when he sold the
business to CompuServe.
David Sacks: Zenefit CEO
With a mission to make entrepreneurialism easier and more accessible to
everyone, David Sacks started building startups and selling them for
billions of dollars. Previously, Sacks was the founder and CEO of
Yammer, Inc which was sold to Microsoft for $1.2 billion.
Previously, he
was the COO of PayPal until its acquisition by eBay for $1.5 billion in
2002. Subsequently, he founded Geni, a family tree-building and
networking website. Nowadays, he's on to his third billion-dollar
startup, Zenefits, which was last valued at $4.5 billion.
