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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”
Benioff: Salesforce Sold 200 Agentforce Deals in Q3 2024
“We shipped it October, and the quarter, which closed at the end of October, we already sold 200 deals.”
Benioff: Salesforce Overall Workforce Will Likely Be Larger in Five Years
“I think we'll probably be larger.”
Benioff: AI Advances in Cycles of Breakthrough, Commoditization, and Plateau
“In the last 60 years, the history of AI is a new model or a new technology will come along, and a bunch of folks will kind of get to the point where it becomes a commodity, and then we kind of hold until we wait to the next one, and then it goes on”
Benioff: Enterprise AI Advanced So Fast That Customers Cannot Comprehend It
“I think we are in such a new world right now in terms of what is possible today versus even just six months ago that customers do not understand This and what it can mean for them.”
Benioff: I Would Not Have Enjoyed Owning Twitter
“And I guess in a lot of ways I'm happy I didn't because I don't think I could, I would have enjoyed that part of it at all.”
Benioff: San Francisco is the world's top AI city
“We're in San Francisco, which is the number one AI city in the world. That's where all the talent is and all the great startups and companies”
Benioff: Salesforce built the first AI operating without seeing customer data
“We were really the first AI that was built where it was able to operate on the data without us seeing the data.”
Benioff has personally donated over $1 billion to philanthropic causes
“I've given away more than a billion dollars to all kinds of organizations, mostly in San Francisco, mostly our university, mostly UCSF.”
Benioff's 1t.org aims to sequester 200 gigatons of carbon
“I have a program called OneT.org, the Trillion Tree Program, trying to sequester 200 gigatons of carbon with a trillion trees.”
Benioff: Salesforce Market Cap Tripled to Mid-$300B in Two Years
“So we ended up in the mid three hundred billion dollars in market cap. And, you know, when I think back I think our stock was about one third this value two years ago, one third.”
Salesforce Is Building an AI Agent Layer for Heathrow Airport
“We're building an agentic layer completely around the airport with Heathrow so that from the beginning of your journey to your end, you're going to be partnered with an agent to make sure you have an absolutely great experience at Heathrow.”
Benioff: Salesforce Hosts Over 230 Petabytes of Data on Its Platform
“We have over 230 petabytes of that data in our platform, and that makes it very unique”
Benioff: Salesforce Has Invested in Anthropic, Mistral, and Cohere
“We also use a lot of other models. We change that on a regular basis, and we've invested in a lot of model companies, including Anthropic and Mistral and Cohere and many Many of them.”
Benioff Personally Invested in Fei-Fei Li's AI Startup
“Even personally, I've invested in many amazing models. I've invested in an incredible new next-gen model company from Fei Fei Li, who ran AI at Stanford. Her husband runs research for me at Salesforce.”
Benioff Personally Invested in and Named AI Startup You.com
“Another incredible company that I'm personally an investor in is you.com company that I invested myself. I named it myself. The founder is the former head of Salesforce research.”
Benioff: Salesforce Added Early AI Models But Didn't Pivot to Deep Learning
“I saw all those models too, and while I added it into Salesforce, I didn't pivot Salesforce entirely around deep learning.”
Benioff Reaffirms Salesforce Almost Acquired Twitter
“We almost bought one. You probably remember we almost bought Twitter.”
Marc Benioff splits his time equally between SF and Hawaii
“I've always lived half and half, back and forth.”
Benioff: The five questions to answer before starting any project
“So what do I want? What's important about it? How do I get it? What is preventing me from having it? And how will I know that I have it? And those five questions really are guiding me.”