Selipsky has had major leadership roles in AWS for over 11 years before departing to Tableau as a CEO. At Tableau, Selipsky led the company through the acquisition by Salesforce in 2019, one of the largest acquisitions in history of enterprise software.
Amazon has hired former executive Adam Selipsky, CEO of Tableau, as CEO of AWS. Selipsky worked at AWS for 11 years, running sales, marketing and support.
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Source: TechTarget
Salesforce buys Tableau for an amount of $15.7B, in not only its largest M&A deal to date, but probably one of the largest deals ever. After Google only acquired Looker earlier past week, it seems the race for Business Analytics is on.
SaaS giant Salesforce announced that it has signed an agreement with Seattle-based data visualization and analysis platform Tableau for $15.7 billion in stock. Both companies’ boards of directors approved the deal, which “is expected to be completed during Salesforce’s fiscal third quarter […]
Source: Salesforce To Buy Tableau For $15.7B In Its Largest M&A Deal To Date