enterprise AI

also referred to as: enterprise ai

18 statements across 16 episodes · 10 bullish · 4 bearish · 15 people on the record · first statement Sep 25, 2023 by Marc Benioff · across every show →

Everything said about enterprise AI, oldest first

Sep 25, 2023 bullish
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Benioff: Salesforce has become the number one enterprise AI platform
“And that's kind of how we became the number one enterprise AI today.”
Marc Benioff Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 0:48 Marc Benioff: The Future of San Francisco and What He Would Do if in Charge | E1064 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 22, 2024 bearish
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Dines: Enterprise AI Outside Code Completion Generates Little Revenue Today
“Up to the day, the adoption, I think, the most interesting cases that we've seen are in, like, coding auto-completion. And outside this, I don't think there are a lot of money right now to be made, made already, but many people are trying. It's a lot of POCs.”
Daniel Dines Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 1:33:17 Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 24, 2024 neutral
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Luan: Enterprise AI adoption will play out over a very long timeline
“We're going to be on this adoption curve for enterprise AI for a very, very long time.”
David Luan Jun 24, 2024 ▶ 43:49 David Luan: Why Nvidia Will Enter the Model Space & Models Will Enter the Chip Space | E1169 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 23, 2024 neutral
Insight
Tennant: Enterprise AI friction stems from security and change management, not product
“So what the challenge is, is not like some of the other technologies, a product issue, it's more of a change management security challenge.”
AJ Tennant Oct 23, 2024 ▶ 27:00 AJ Tennant: How to Build a Sales Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | E2118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 23, 2024 negative
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Enterprise AI implementation takes 6-12 months or $5M in services
“Everyone is being sold A bag of goods and a dream of this sort of AI enabled workforce or Automation, top line, bottom line, and then when it comes to implementation, it's taking six, nine, 12 months, or it comes attached with a five million dollar services bu…”
AJ Tennant Oct 23, 2024 ▶ 26:02 AJ Tennant: How to Build a Sales Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | E2118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 9, 2024 positive
Insight
Benioff: Enterprise AI Accuracy Requires Direct Access to Data and Metadata
“For AI to work really well and to get the level of accuracy and low hallucinogenics that you need in enterprise AI today you have to have as much access to the data and metadata and workflow as possible”
Marc Benioff Dec 9, 2024 ▶ 10:26 Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 22, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Sivulka: 90% of enterprise AI is vapor and usage stats are fake
“I think, like, 90% of enterprise AI right now is almost like this vapor where, hey, we swear it works, like, look at this amazing demo where we ask, What does the CEO say about the investment? And the minute that they actually go to, you know, try to use it in…”
George Sivulka Jan 22, 2025 ▶ 24:18 George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 10, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2030
Ramaswamy: Enterprise AI Will Feature Specialized Models, Not One Winner
“On the enterprise side, I absolutely see there being all kinds of specializations because so far in whatever the last 50 years, it's not the case that there's been an equivalent of Google search.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 47:40 Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 3, 2025 positive
Insight
Pineau: Selling enterprise AI offers better feedback than academic benchmarks
“When you need to sell AI to a business, you get a real signal of what works, what doesn't work. And you know, we've been using these academic benchmarks for many years. You get some signal, but it's not the same as getting this to do productive work.”
Joelle Pineau Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 14:15 Cohere's Chief AI Officer, Joelle Pineau: Why Scaling Laws Will Continue & Future of Synthetic Data · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 31, 2025
Insight
Fitzpatrick: Enterprise AI requiring workflow adaptation demands forward-deployed engineers
“If you're building something where the hardest part is getting adoption and workflow embedding, and you need to actually change the way a company works, then yes, forward deployed engineers are the only way to do it.”
Matt Fitzpatrick Dec 31, 2025 ▶ 24:17 Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 19, 2026 bullish
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Weinberg: Code generation and enterprise AI will not hit a performance plateau
“On the enterprise, I think things are going to keep going, and especially Cogen. I think we are not going to see a plateau in Cogen. I think that is going to get much better really, really fast.”
Winston Weinberg Jan 19, 2026 ▶ 22:41 Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg: How to Make Mega Deals | Lessons from Rabois, Halligan & Grady · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 16, 2026 positive
Insight
O'Driscoll: AI value creation will be two-thirds enterprise, one-third consumer
“Enterprise is two thirds of the ball game in AI and consumer is one third or less, which is the flip of the last time.”
Rory O'Driscoll Apr 16, 2026 ▶ 55:56 SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 22, 2026
Insight
Enterprise AI agents require zero tolerance for false positives
“On the enterprise side, false positives matter a lot. They matter because if you imagine a future where an agent's going to make independent decisions and act on it, you have zero tolerance for false positives.”
Nikesh Arora Jun 22, 2026 ▶ 7:12 Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 22, 2026 bullish
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Arora: Enterprise AI revenue will come from deep context use cases
“The real enterprise revenue is going to come from use cases that are required a lot more context.”
Nikesh Arora Jun 22, 2026 ▶ 8:36 Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 9, 2026 bearish
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Lemkin: Microsoft's enterprise AI deployment strategy will fail
“I think this is going to fail because I don't think there is enough talent To do what we want to do in the enterprise. The idea makes sense to on a spreadsheet. It makes sense. Sad is smarter than me, but I, my today, my experience is it's going to fail with a…”
Jason Lemkin Jul 9, 2026 ▶ 1:07:56 Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 11, 2026 bullish
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Jain: Securing enterprise AI clients later will be 10x harder
“We are absolutely in a land grab, like, you know, no question. Like every single company in the world wants a product like ours today. And either we get in today or it's going to be like 10 times harder to actually get in the future.”
Arvind Jain Jul 11, 2026 ▶ 45:21 ⁠Why OpenAI and Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Glean Founder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 20, 2026 bullish
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Qiao: Every company will own its custom AI intelligence within three years
“I really see people will own their, every single company will own their own intelligence as a must-have. It's not optional.”
Lin Qiao Jul 20, 2026 ▶ 1:27:12 The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10X & Usage Will Explode 100X | Lin Qiao
Jul 25, 2026 positive
Opinion
Nitski: Enterprise AI does not currently have an ROI problem
“I don't think there's an ROI problem right now. I think we're in a period of exploration and experimentation where there's more tolerance, more patience To get that ROI calculation right now.”
Osvald Nitski Jul 25, 2026 ▶ 0:47 Mercor Head of Product on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs
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