Mark Benioff

“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.”

“Me, Jensen, Brad Smith, Anthony Tan from Grab, and a bunch of other folks were put on this UN Commission for AI that Mark is the co-chairman of.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm not a Democrat or Republican. I am an American.”

“I think that the Chinese models are as competitive as these U S models, and they've learned to make these models without having the highest end chips.”

“I, I've said this for years. I don't agree with Neil Ferguson on that point. I think that this is a nonsense issue. I think China and Taiwan will reconcile.”

“Hey, if it wasn't for Tony Robbins, I don't think there would be a Salesforce, so there you go.”

“I looked at the top 10 major enterprise software companies. They all had great quarters. And they're all trading in two times sales.”

“Look, we'll do over forty six billion this year, more than sixteen billion in cash flow.”

“I think the high end of the market where Mark operates, where the large monoliths operate is quite safe.”

“And what's going to happen is they're going to have to go to guys like Mark and other people and say, Please sell my tokens.”

“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…”

“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.”

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

“You know, Mark Benioff said, even at Salesforce, they're growing, they're adding more headcount in sales and marketing, but I think he's, I know the numbers, I think three or 4000 folks in support, they already replaced with AI and their own AI and support Cog…”

“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…”

“He said, this is the number one thing he was jealous of Palantir was one of it was how, how, how, how well they charge their customers, but he was most jealous of what they've done in forward deployed engineers. He said, what I would love at Salesforce is that…”

“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.”

“We have General Catalyst, KOTU, Insight, O-One Advisors, Jeff Bezos, Mark Benioff, Dara, Neo, Elad Gill, Dylan Field, and Inspired Capital, and I'm sure there's more.”

“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”

“Salesforce is coming up on thirty billion, and Mark Benioff's still out there hustling and meeting with customers. If you're a VP of sales and gunner or CRO, pass. Don't matter what else you like them.”

“Everybody submits a plan, and typically that plan has to grow a minimum of 20%, because that's just, like, Mark Benioff's thing. We grow 20% every year. And if you're hitting the plan, you meet with him once a quarter. And if you're missing the plan, you meet …”

“I mean, Mark Benioff in his book wrote his biggest mistake in the last downturns was cutting sales. And what did he just do? Cut sales. So we're all, he's making them, he's making the same mistake three times.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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…”

“If you listen to Mark Benioff or John Smorjai at Salesforce, they always say good companies are bought, not sold. I think that's true with good strategic outcomes. If you initiate it, I don't think it's ever good.”

“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…”

“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.”