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caroline: that was marc benioff speaking with brad stone earlier this year.s me now to dig into that interview and salesforce more. that is the epitome of frenimies. brad: that was a fun interview to do because there was a huge crowd and he was hamming it up a little bit. his point is a very funny one. they take potshots at each other and then clearly a are playing tennis on the weekend. caroline: having a beer or two. i come over from germany where sap rules the roost, but they're desperately trying to get on board with a cloud offerings and have done very well. microsoft is in a very well. oracle has been slower. is the fight to own the cloud space, the competition is hard. brad: one of the challenges for salesforce is the legacy software providers have woken up to the crm. they are competing pretty hard. salesforce is on an $8 billion sales run rate, and that will slow down by definition. they are looking for areas of expansion and they have expanded the product portfolio with an aggressive acquisition strategy. $5 billion in 2016. that assures the company

marc benioff did not feel defrauded. his wife is on the board. she looked at the details. there's other stuff we will discover. and i cannot say what else i will discover. i personally went and talked to him and he didn't have one credible allegation. he suggested i talk to three other people. i talked to those people. emily: do the allegations bother you? do they concern you? that: first, every company has employees leave has allegations. sometimes, probably 20%-30% of the time, they are right. 70%-80%, they are just bitterness. we will look into them when they are serious, i won't comment on the specifics but we are always looking. entrepreneurs push the edges. is the buyback relevant? the $77,000, that is completely irrelevant to our investment decision. why is somebody investigating? ask the question. did you know under a freedom of , information request, the board was plotting to destroy hampton creek because the egg industry hated them. unilever sued and then withdrew the lawsuit when they realized how bad it was. there are many enemies the company has, including usi

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remember that's suddenly marc benioff started kicking the tires.inkedin in interested in twitter, demand ware got a bid from 24 to 27 and buy, bingo, marc benioff buys for 75. click got taken over too. so seven days in december, not may. that would be kind of political. >> yeah. then there's starbucks of course announcing howard schultz will step down as ceo. going to be succeeded by president and c.o.o. kevin johnson. schultz will become executive chairman and focus on the company's high end coffee shops. earlier on squawk jim asked schultz about the leadership change. >> it's got to be difficult for kevin. you're an executive chairman, you're not a chairman. that means you'll be intimately involved. you're staying on in a very important mission. how will you really let kevin have the reins? because an executive chairman is in there doing exactly what a ceo could do if he's not careful. >> no, no, jim, i can't let you get away with that one. kevin johnson starting in april is going to be comprehensively all in the chief executive officer at starbu

i recently sat down with my good friend billie and marc benioff, the ceo of sales force to talk about how they're working together to fight for equality. billie jean king is phone for her legendary matches on the tennis court but she's also a passionate human rights activist. >> i felt like i've always walked on a tightrope trying to be good to people, kind to people but also to give them way to start advancing equality. it is so difficult. >> reporter: which is why in 2014 she started the billie jean king leadership initiative to create equality in the workplace. >> we need more women and more african-american ceos and the lgbt community is important to be safe and be their authentic self. important to listen to the ceos. difference. marc benioff, a philanthropist and leader of the groundbreaking company salesforce, one of the fastest growing technology companies in the world. >> billie is one of my heroes. i mean i've loved her forever and her fight for equality is a fight that we share at salesforce. i strongly believe that ceos today need to fight for their employees, for their eq

salesforce ceo marc benioff has pledgedz8y'ñ $10 million. >> there is nothing more important than theeducation and health care for our kids. and when you look at health care and their future t starts with where they're living. >> san francisco leaders say there are more than 1,800 homeless students in san francisco's public schools. if you would like to help, we have a link posted on our website, nbcbayarea.com. >>> our chief meteorologist, jeff ranieri, is with us. we need this weekend to be here asap. >> i know. >> rain or shine. >> i was going to say the same thing. exactly. i have big plans tomorrow to sit inside and do absolutely nothing. if you guys are all with me, that weather forecast is going to cooperate. let's get a live look at stormranger. if you haven't seen it, well, it is a beauty. we have our doppler radar hoisted up about 20 feet on the back of a truck. it's also equipped with an x band radar to help us to detect wildfire smoke when we get into the hot summer months and a camera and also a weather station. so let's show what stormranger is picking up as the doppler

ceo marc benioff says the business software maker could reach $20 billion in annual revenue faster than enterprise software company. but the stock is down some 10% this year. analysts say the street is still worried in part that benioff might make a big acquisition, given his flirtation with twitter earlier this year. >> for salesforce to start moving higher in 2017, i think it's simple. first of all, they need to get back on message around growth plus margin expansion equals mid-20% cash flow growth. this is a strong, fundamental company. they've got a lot of open-ended opportunities from a growth perspective, but you've got to move away, frankly, from a lot of the discussion about m&a. >> more than 90% of analysts rate crn a buy, pointing to strong top-line growth, a growing product portfolio, an attractive risk-reward. now, from a laggard to a leader, the best performing tech stock this year is nvidia. it has surged some 250%. nvidia semiconductors are powering many exciting fields that investors want exposure to -- ai, self-driving cars and video games. still, not everyone is a fan.

street is still worried that ceo marc benioff could pull the trigger on a big acquisition giving hislirtation with twitter earlier this year. they point to increasing competition from rivals like microsoft. still, more than 90% of analysts rate crm a buy, a customer base now exceeding 150,000. from lager to leader, the best performing tech stock is invidia, by a long shot. they surged 240%. invidia semiconductors are powering many exciting fields that investors do want exposure to, including ai, self-driving cars, and video games and bulls say this stock has more room to run. >> what is driving the near term is the hard core pc gamer. we have new toggle releases coming out for the season. so battlefield 1 is out. that's a high performance game. those hard core pc gamers want the next generation greatest gpu, it is a higher gross margin, higher performing product. >> not everyone is such a fan, though. just this morning short seller citron research tweeted the market is disregarding head winds for invidia like increa increasing competition. >> thank you very much, josh lipton. it has

failure of the process particularly in terms of salesforce, which had been so aggressive and then marc benioff with his own shareholders said, no, you can't do this and backing off left twit ner a very difficult position dealing with the fundamentals and as you say this brain drain, which has gotten a lot of press. and also a lot of analyst notes on how many people they've lost in the upper ranks. >> so as a result though twitter shares are back down to the low end of the range. >> yes. >> you wonder if that's going to fuel m&a speculation to heat up again. >> they want the price to be at a certain level that i think the question is who bought those first? does twitter start to accept a lower valuation than what it would really want right now? >> you want to sell off as high valuation as you can. right now nothing going on as far as i'm aware, but i think you will have that idea speculation swirl around from time to time. we'll see if it reappears in 2017. you know, it's not that large a company. >> no. it's now smaller than the value of bitcoin, as a lot of the bitcoin enthusiasts like to say

and one concern there that ceo marc benioff might make an acquisition, but bulls at evercore expect thist year if salesforce gets back on track. emphasizing expansion and not headline making m&a. back to you. >> thank you for that, josh. >>> coming up, a case of whodunit. how the amazon echo might be able to offer a few clues in a murder investigation. that story is next. seen that on "dateline." "squawk box" will be right back. yo path to retirirent may nowayse clear. but t. rowe price, we can help guide your retirement savings. so whever your retirement jrneye your takes you, savings. we canelp you reach goals. or your adsor t. rowe ice. vest with confidce. >>> welcome back to "squawk box." an arkansas man facing a first degree murder charge after police found the body of a man in a hot tub back in november of 2015. and now police are hoping that an amazon device could help with the investigation. we mentioned this earlier. prosecutors are accusing 32-year-old james bates of murdering his coworker. collins was allegedly strangled in bates' hot tub. police have obtained a warrant for au