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# Cloud Computing

2026-10-25

Marc Benioff: Putting 'No Software' on a Badge — The Oracle Prodigy Who Hired Fake Protesters and Turned Enterprise Software into a Utility

Ranked #39 on the 100 Product Managers Who Changed the World: Marc Benioff (OVR 88.45 — Business 95, Vision 93, Origin 90, Scale 86, Insight 84, Taste 78). Once Larry Ellison's youngest VP at Oracle, he launched Salesforce in 1999 with a slash through the word 'Software' and invented the modern SaaS industry.

2026-09-11

The product history of AWS, and why it ranks 7th

AWS booked $128.725 billion in 2025 net sales — 18% of Amazon's total — and produced 57% of the whole company's operating income. The first thing it ever sold was a virtual machine at 10 cents an hour, in 2006. It ranks 7th at 94.05, with originality 97 behind only the iPhone and the shipping container in the top ten, and scale 92 the only sub-95 score up there. This is the product history in order, and what the score is measuring.