Keith Block, the departing co-CEO of Salesforce, first joined the company in 2013 after a sudden and unexpected departure from Oracle.
Their feud turned nasty public after Block's text messages denigrating Hurd became public. In one message to a colleague, Block called Hurd "lots of noise, not much results." "Keith Block is a super strong operator" who "presided over tremendous growth at Salesforce and had a big role in shaping what the company is today," IDC President Crawford Del Prete told Business Insider.
Block's unexpected departure at Salesforce marks yet another sudden exit in a distinguished, though sometimes controversial, career in the business software market.Block joined Salesforce in 2013 after a distinguished 26-year career at rival Oracle where he played a critical sales role. Block had been head of Oracle's North America sales organization. But Block's Oracle career hit a rough spot after he clashed with the late Mark Hurd, who was then co-president with Safra Catz.
Block also blasted the decision to buy server giant Sun Microsystems in 2010, saying the business was "dead, dead, dead." Block also said: "We bought a dog...Mark wants us to sell the dog."
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