Mark Benioff

“To date, Adrian has raised funding from some of the true greats of the business, including Mark Benioff, Eric Schmidt, Joe Lonsdale, Aaron Levy, and Josh Kushner, just to name a few.”

“I think Mark Benioff is one of the best at finding and keeping talent. He knows everybody in the industry, and he knows for every slot he's got. Who are the three others if they're not? First of all, there's a lot of growth from within companies. But if they'r…”

“I guarantee you that if Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or Mark Benioff ever did a review, a three 60, the people around them aren't saying they're really good listeners. There's a lot of people say, They didn't listen to it, but they are listening, right? They are li…”

“We cut back our allocation significantly in order to make room for Mark Benioff and a bunch of our friends who wanted to be investors, right?”

“The quality plummeted as we hired mainstream normal people, the quality plummeted. Any leader will tell you this quietly. Any VP, Mark Benioff said it last week. Like they'll tell you the quality went down the last three years. Way down.”

“So Mark Benioff, Salesforce, you write that off at your peril, because the amount of data they have, right, they throw in these AI tools, they're doing their own stuff, right? That is, that, like, their opportunity is enormous”

“They've raised over seventy million dollars from the likes of Sequoia, GV, Dylan Field, Elad Gill, and even the legend that is Mark Benioff.”

“So you literally can't brute force a hundred million in 10 months with humans. It's just maybe, maybe, maybe Larry Ellison or Mark Benioff could, but I don't think anyone else, there's just not enough calls and like, you can't go from one to a hundred in 10 mo…”

“How I got Mark Benioff to come on TwentyVC through 53 cold emails”

“I do think a hat tip deserves to be given to our friend of the show, Mr. Mark Benioff, who army just awarded sales. 5.6 billion. Billion dollar contract over 10 years.”

“It's incredible, like, why don't, it's amazing that people are listening to some random research firm versus listening to people like Stan Druckenmiller, Howard Marks, Ken Griffin, Steve Cohen, like, Mark Benioff, people like Mark Zuckerberg you know, Jensen W…”

“Right now, you know, if you look at Mark Benioff, he said they spent three hundred million on Anthropik. That's about 3.8% of developer salaries spent on tokens.”

“And Mark Benioff said that he spent three hundred million dollars on Anthropic, which on specifically for the dev team, which equates to 3.8% of dev Salaries spent on tokens.”

“So no, I don't at all for Cursor or for any of the dev tools. I think it's still dramatically underpriced. When you look at Mark Benioff spending three hundred million on Anthropic, it's 3.7% of developer salaries. I think that's relatively small.”