Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Lynne Benioff, 43, was a publicist during the dot-com boom. The days of sloppy, boring, ill-fitting clothes in Silicon Valley are over, at least among this crowd. We are unable to fully display the content of this page. Lynne Benioff and Sonia Guajajara attend the 2022 TIME100 Gala on June 08, 2022 in New York City. The Getty Images design is a trademark of Getty Images. Collect, curate and comment on your files. We are unable to fully display the content of this page. Mary Gonsalves Kinney, Joel Goodrich and Nikita KahnHosts Kinney and Kahn in Marni. https://t.co/TsbcXhO1OU, Marc Benioff (@Benioff) September 16, 2018. This strategy reduced technical expenses and headaches for customers, while allowing Salesforce to make initial sales to small groups of employees at companies that would expand over time. It represents a great contribution in support of the UN Decade of Ocean Science. At 17, Benioff developed and sold Atari video games, and earned enough to pay his way to USC. Lynne Benioff is a philanthropist, active on the boards of several organizations. In recognition of their legacy commitment and in their honor the building also will be renamed Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory. Marc & Lynne Benioff - Points of Light Lynne Benioff, 36, was already a volunteer with the UCSF Foundation, the school's fundraising and investing arm. Driven to improve and safeguard the health of our oceans through science and technology, Marc and Lynne Benioff have made a gift of $60 million to UC Santa Barbara, one of the world's most important marine research centers. Marc is the founder, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com, a cloud computing company. He began writing software as a teenager and briefly wrote code in the mid-1980s at Apple during the original tenure of Steve Jobs. Mr. Benioff after giving a speech at a Salesforce Foundation event.