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Benioff: Salesforce cut support headcount from 9,000 to 5,000 via AI agents
“And to that point, I've been able to reduce the number of human agents I have in support From about 9000 to about 5000.”
Benioff: Salesforce Will Not Hire Software Engineers in 2025 Due to AI
“We're not adding any more software engineers next year because we have increased the productivity this year with AgentForce and with other AI technology that we're using for our engineering teams by more than 30% to the point where our engineering velocity is …”
Benioff: Salesforce Will Reduce Support Engineer Headcount in 2025
“We will have less support engineers next year because we have an agentic layer”
Marc Benioff Predicts AGI Will Not Be Achieved in 2025
“I don't think we are in AGI in twenty-twenty-five, so I think that's an optimistic thought.”
Benioff: US Government is Salesforce's largest customer after beating Palantir on Army contract
“Because the US federal government is already my largest customer, right? That's our, you know, we run the Veterans Administration, the GSA, and we just won You probably read just, we just run a huge U S army contract. We beat Palantir.”
Benioff: Jensen Huang Was Sole Tech CEO to Pivot to Deep Learning
“He was the only large company, CEO in tech, who said, you know what? Deep learning is such a big idea, and this technology is pretty darn close, the GPU to what you need. I'm gonna pivot my whole company, and I'm just gonna be about deep learning. And he did t…”
Benioff: Salesforce engineers are only required in-office 10 days per quarter
“Our engineers only have to come in the office 10 days a quarter.”
Benioff: Salesforce expects sales, marketing, and G&A staff in-office three days weekly
“I think that for our sales and marketing people, We tell them that four days a week we want to see them, you know, in person with a customer. For our sales and for our marketing people and our G&A people, we like to see them in person three days a week.”
Benioff: Snowflake, Databricks, and Palantir Foundry each generate $3B-$4B revenue
“When you look at other data clouds, Snowflake, Databricks, Palantir Foundry, they're all in the three to four billion dollar revenue.”
Benioff: Prompt engineering originated from Salesforce AI research team
“Prompt engineering, which by the way was came out of our Salesforce AI research team”
Benioff: Salesforce Data Cloud and AI reached over $1B ARR
“The data cloud and AI together now is more than a billion in revenue. We talked about that on our last earnings call. It's our fastest growing Cloud product, whatever, ever, you know, in 26 years.”
Benioff: Salesforce Projects Thousands of Agentforce Deals in Q4
“We'll do thousands of agent force deals this quarter”
Benioff: Salesforce Agentforce Pricing Starts at $2 Per Conversation
“Agent force is consumption pricing. So you're being charging per conversation. The starting price is about two bucks per conversation, and then it's negotiated based on volumes for customers.”
Benioff: San Francisco police staffing fell from 2,000 to 1,400 officers
“From the time that Gavin Newsom was mayor to today, we've gone from a little over 2000 cops on the streets in San Francisco now to about 1400.”
Benioff: Salesforce is San Francisco's largest philanthropist, donating $250M+
“Salesforce is now San Francisco's largest philanthropist. And we've given more than a hundred million dollars to the children's hospital and more than a hundred and fifty million dollars to the public schools.”
Benioff: Microsoft holds only 3% CRM market share
“Why Microsoft has three percent CRM market share because of nonsense.”
Benioff: Salesforce Guides to $38B Revenue and $12.9B Cash Flow
“We had a great quarter, Harry. We delivered, you know, clear guidance to thirty eight billion in revenue this year, 12.9 billion in cash flow 32.9% margins.”
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 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 Reaffirms Salesforce Almost Acquired Twitter
“We almost bought one. You probably remember we almost bought Twitter.”