Apr 07, 2021 / 01:15AM GMT
Rebecca Blumenstein -
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Greetings to everyone tuning in around the world. I'm Rebecca Blumenstein with the New York Times, and I'm very happy to be here with Marc Benioff, the CEO and Chairman of Salesforce for the past 22 years, which is quite an impressive run.
Marc, Salesforce has played a key role in the pandemic. You've enabled remote work and business. And you're also known as, in many ways, the original activist CEO, which has been a big topic around the World Economic Forum these days.
Questions and Answers:
Rebecca Blumenstein -I'd love to start with that, especially over the past week, given the controversy here in the United States about Georgia and the restrictive voting rules that were passed. It's kind of reignited what the role of companies should be. What is your stand on that legislation?
Marc R. Benioff - salesforce.com, inc. - Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO
Well, my stand, Rebecca, is that voting is the foundation of our democracy. And everyone is entitled to their votes, and