Bret Taylor’s resignation as co-CEO of Salesforce surprised those inside and outside the company on Wednesday. Taylor shared the top position with the cloud software maker’s founder Marc Benioff for one year, quickly moving up the ranks in his six years at the firm.
Salesforce is selling the story that Taylor experienced a change of heart and wanted to return to his “entrepreneurial roots.” Others speculate that Taylor has been tapped as CEO of Twitter, where he was chair of the board during the company's months-long, famously fraught sale to Elon Musk. But it’s also possible that Taylor was dissatisfied with the role and unwilling to sink another year into it—he’s the second co-CEO to leave a business marriage to Benioff.
