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by andscoop 1423 days ago
> these days Bret Taylor's job as "co-CEO" is mostly "cleanup crew" for Benioff's various whims.

Do you have examples of this?

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Without going into much detail, the way some NFT stuff was handled internally is a big example, and then there was the company all-hands where Benioff berated some presenter on stage for having not-cool-enough shoes, and Bret had to spend a whole trying to spin it into a "haha, great joke buddy" sort of situation.

Stuff like Benioff's "just the tip" tweet has always been who he is when his handlers don't have a tight grip on him. Bret Taylor's position seems like he's been put there because 1.) He's got _some_ engineering experience more recently than 1999, and 2.) Bret is less, uh, belligerent than Benioff.