'Tableau didn't want our cash — they wanted our equity, because they know that the real value here is in the company that we're creating together,' Benioff tells Jim Cramer in an interview.
"Tableau didn't want our cash — they wanted our equity, because they know that the real value here is in the company that we're creating together," Benioff toldin an interview. "We would have been more than happy to give them any currency they wanted, but ultimately they want our stock and, hey, I can't blame them."
The first two cornerstones, he said, are the customer and data integration, which was aided by the company's $6.5 billion purchase ofin 2018. Tableau fulfills the need for analytics and visualization that companies need to track business operations.
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