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Benioff: Layoffs Are a Necessary Tool and CEOs Shouldn't Fear Them
“So layoff is an important tool for CEOs to be able to use, to be able to prepare for a company for the future. And nobody wants to hit the button. Nobody wants to take the action. No employee wants to hear the words. It sends chills down everybody's spine, inc…”
Marc Benioff Dec 9, 2024 ▶ 21:14 Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Benioff: Generic AI Companies Are No Longer a Viable Business Strategy
“I don't think being just a generic company is the right move anymore. You need to decide what vertical you're going to be in or what your best specialty is.”
Marc Benioff Dec 9, 2024 ▶ 17:55 Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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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”
Marc Benioff Dec 9, 2024 ▶ 10:26 Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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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”
Marc Benioff Dec 9, 2024 ▶ 14:05 Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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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.”
Marc Benioff Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 12:46 Marc Benioff: The Future of San Francisco and What He Would Do if in Charge | E1064 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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