Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor is stepping down and leaving the cloud-software company to "return to his entrepreneurial roots," Salesforce announced on Wednesday in a surprise move that leaves founder Marc Benioff as the sole leader of the $160 billion company.
Taylor's resignation, just one year after the former Facebook executive was promoted to the co-CEO job at Salesforce left company insiders "completely shocked," and raised instant speculation about the cause of the change and about Taylor's next gig.
