Salesforce.com
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George: Enterprises will not vibe code their own Salesforce replacements
“I don't think that like companies are going to vibe code up like their salesforce.com. That's just not worth it.”
George: Salesforce Is Painful To Use And Just A Sophisticated Form Checker
“What do people do in salesforce.com? It's basically like a sophisticated form checker with some analysis, and it's like brutal. It's painful to use. The future with AI is not going to be anything like that.”
Queener: Salesforce Spent 60 Cents Per Dollar on Physical Servers in 2003
“In 2003, when I was working at salesforce.com, we took 60 cents of every dollar that we collect from customers and we bought servers and put them in our own data centers.”
Salesforce drove 10% of HubSpot's revenue as a channel partner before competing
“Salesforce.com was an early investor in our Series D, believe it or not, and actually became a big channel partner for us over time, about 10% of our customers before we became competitive.”
Grady: Salesforce was garbage compared to on-premise Siebel in 2007
“Salesforce.com circa 2007 was garbage compared to on-prem Siebel system.”
Azhar: Consumers won't be able to opt out of AI
“I suspect that that people won't really have a choice because their interface with the world is effectively largely mediated by private companies. So if you have an iPhone and you'll have an AI, if you me using salesforce.com for your CRM, It will have AI func…”
Doug Adamic: Salesforce remains the gold standard for enterprise sales strategy
“I still am impressed by salesforce.com and how they go about getting business, how they sell value, the way in which they create an experience and a customer success motion for the companies that they have, the breadth and depth of how they can add value and s…”
Daniel: Energy was one of our career's greatest contrarian value trades
“One of, probably, I would say the biggest for us was when Exxon got kicked out of the Dow for Salesforce.com, Us schmucks, everybody else in the world goes and buys Salesforce.com because it's going to be in relative indices and the like. We go, let's take a l…”
Immelt: GE should have partnered with Salesforce or Microsoft for software
“Here's what I would have done differently, you know, Harry, in all honesty, I've had four years to think about it, is I would have either bought a part of a startup company or done a joint venture with maybe salesforce.com or Microsoft and created a new co, cr…”
Target Recruit is a Salesforce-based ATS monetized via licenses and services
“So target recruit is a subscription based applicant tracking system and vendor management system, which is based on salesforce.com. And we, the business model is we have a per user license. Cost as well as some services.”
Cabrera: LinkedIn and Salesforce run all sales compensation through Xactly
“LinkedIn, Salesforce.com, you know, they, these companies pay a hundred percent of their sales forces using our tool.”
Jitterbit's strategic investors include Salesforce, Autodesk, and KKR
“Salesforce.com was the first strategic investor, followed by Autodesk, and then last year I brought in KKR, the growth side, the technology growth fund of KKR.”
Blosser: Salesforce succeeds due to brand power rather than product quality
“If you look at Salesforce.com and they don't have the best product in the world, but they have the best brand.”