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Fortune
Lila MacLellan

Just 7 Fortune 500 companies employ a co-CEO model after Bret Taylor's exit from Salesforce

Bret Taylor, former co-chief executive officer of Salesforce.com Inc., right, and Marc Benioff, co-chief executive officer of Salesforce.com Inc., wear rabbit ears during a keynote at the 2022 Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, (Credit: Getty Images-Marlena Sloss/Bloomberg)

Bret Taylor, perhaps best known as Twitter's board chair before Elon Musk took that company private, surprised everyone when he resigned from his day job as co-CEO of Salesforce this week. 

His departure raised questions, once again, about the wisdom of demanding that two executives share the top job. Intuitively, it seems like an impossible ask of the types of executives who rise to the C-suite with sights set on the corner office. 

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