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Benioff: Salesforce Shifted Help.Salesforce.com to 100% AI Agents
“This week, I think I already told you, we turned on help.salesforce.com. I stripped out my previous support infrastructure. I've plugged in a new support infrastructure and it's all 100% agent base.”
Marc Benioff Dec 9, 2024 ▶ 11:32 Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Benioff: Salesforce threatened to pull Dreamforce until San Francisco leaders delivered
“I mean, I had to kind of lay down the gauntlet. You probably saw that. I had to threaten the city and all the leaders and say, if you guys don't get your act together, we're not coming back, and They delivered.”
Marc Benioff Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 26:05 Marc Benioff: The Future of San Francisco and What He Would Do if in Charge | E1064 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Benioff: Salesforce is not participating in AI talent buying frenzy
“No, and we're not.”
Marc Benioff Aug 28, 2025 ▶ 4:51 Anthropic's $10B Round, Klarna's IPO, Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine ft. Marc Benioff · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Benioff has worked mostly from home his entire life
“I work mostly at home. I have for my entire life. I just have never been able to work well and be successful in an office.”
Marc Benioff Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 17:32 Marc Benioff: The Future of San Francisco and What He Would Do if in Charge | E1064 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Benioff: Salesforce Has Never Experienced Government Coercion or Censorship
“I haven't seen it in my own company. That's why I've been so surprised that, but I don't run a social media company, so I don't really know what the government does with these big consumer platforms.”
Marc Benioff Dec 9, 2024 ▶ 34:15 Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Salesforce subleased 250,000 square feet in SF to a year-old startup
“We just subleased a quarter million square feet of space in one of our buildings, the former Slack headquarters. To a company that didn't exist a year ago”
Marc Benioff Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 4:27 Marc Benioff: The Future of San Francisco and What He Would Do if in Charge | E1064 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Benioff: Salesforce owns a 1% stake in Anthropic
“Salesforce owns one percent of Anthropic.”
Marc Benioff Aug 28, 2025 ▶ 25:20 Anthropic's $10B Round, Klarna's IPO, Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine ft. Marc Benioff · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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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.”
Marc Benioff Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 14:35 Marc Benioff: The Future of San Francisco and What He Would Do if in Charge | E1064 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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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.”
Marc Benioff Dec 9, 2024 ▶ 8:20 Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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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.”
Marc Benioff Dec 9, 2024 ▶ 15:41 Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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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.”
Marc Benioff Dec 9, 2024 ▶ 15:55 Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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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.”
Marc Benioff Dec 9, 2024 ▶ 16:36 Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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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.”
Marc Benioff Dec 9, 2024 ▶ 31:54 Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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