Tableau's new CEO Mark Nelson on Salesforce, Seattle, and Slack

Our guest on this episode of the GeekWire Podcast is Mark Nelson, who was named Tableau Software president and CEO in March.

He filled a vacancy created when his predecessor, Adam Selipsky, was named CEO of Amazon Web Services, taking over for Andy Jassy, who is succeeding Jeff Bezos as Amazon CEO. We get to know Nelson on this episode of the GeekWire Podcast, talking about his background and leadership approach, life inside Salesforce, his goals as the new leader of Tableau, and the company's future in the Seattle region.

Salesforce bought Tableau for more than $15 billion in 2019, its largest acquisition at the time. Now, with Salesforce close to completing its acquisition of workplace collaboration company Slack for $27.7 billion, investors are looking to Tableau's performance inside Salesforce for clues about Slack's fate.

We talk about Tableau's results, ask Nelson what advice he'd give Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield about working with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.

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