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“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…”

“We are building software that just isn't helping companies manage and share information, which is kind of what we've been doing for the last three or four decades, but we're really going to provide software that is really a very much an equivalent of labor.”

“And so for our customers who are now using our agent platform, they're paying between, call it, 50 cents per conversation to two dollars per conversation, depending on the volume of conversations that they're doing”

“So again, we have the disk drives, the operating systems, the databases, the security and sharing model, and we have the apps. And then we have the agentic layer on top of all that. You put a big bow around it and that's how it should work.”

“There are big customer of ours, actually, and they use Slack.”

“This is the greatest opportunity in the history of enterprise software, and it must be executed with absolute acuity and excellence, and that is what I think we all need to do.”

“And then we've got another big wave coming very, very close. Which is going to be autonomous and agents. And then of course we'll get to AGI.”

“I think that San Francisco real estate will certainly be sold out again because of the huge amount of startups that are happening in San Francisco”

“It's the most beautiful city in the world, and the safest, and the cleanest, and we have the statistics to prove it”

“Our engineers only have to come in the office 10 days a quarter.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm allowing my team to make the decision. We have a new CMO who. You know, move the Oracle conference out of San Francisco and moved it to Vegas. So it's definitely on his mind that that's a real possibility. I'm going to obviously advocate for San Francisco,…”

“No venture capitalist would give us money. We raised all the money privately. I was thrown out of, you know, Sequoia three times, US venture capital, three times.”

“So when you're signing the customer, if you're just signing the month-to-month. It doesn't work. You've gotta sign them for one or two or three years at a time, and also that was an incredible part of the cash flow, too”

“Kelly selling planes. He's already sold 200.”

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

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

“Like, I am gonna probably use three hundred million dollars of Anthropic this year at Salesforce coding.”

“Your valuation is fantasy land until somebody is actually going to pay you.”

“So I would say that multi-sensory models are the next big wave for AI”

“It's a five billion dollar fund. It's I think doing a 33% IRR. I don't know exactly the numbers, probably one of the highest performing funds in the world.”

“This year we're going to do about 43.1 billion in revenue, and we just gave guidance yesterday that we expect to be able to do sixty billion dollars by Fiscal year, 30.”

“I also just hired somewhere between three and 5000 more salespeople. Ok, I'm growing my salesforce, it'll be more than, you know, almost, it's I think I'm going to try to get to 20,000 account executives this year.”

“When you look at other data clouds, Snowflake, Databricks, Palantir Foundry, they're all in the three to four billion dollar revenue.”

“I don't think that there will be a piece of software that we sell that will not be agentic.”

“Prompt engineering, which by the way was came out of our Salesforce AI research team”

“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.”

“There's about 5000 companies who are implementing AgentForce”

“It's that old phrase, people overestimate what you're going to do in a year and underestimate what you're going to do in a decade. And that is where we are with this as well, which is that, yes, we can say this is what's going to happen to the contact center, …”

“And now for almost three years, when I write a V-to-mom, one, I always have a Salesforce executive with me. And two, I now have an agent with me as well.”

“Whether it's Databricks or Snowflake, whether it's Shopify, whether it's BigQuery, whether it's All S three, all the places where you're storing data through your company, all of that needs to be one consistent data layer for that agent to be able to really be…”

“We're at the precipice of the greatest moment in the history of enterprise software and of cloud computing.”

“We've, you know, cut our human escalation from our support infrastructure down by 50%. We're resolving 83% of all of our inquiries. Robotically, it's incredible.”

“I just shipped the product into all 135,000 Salesforce customers. So it's their nascent and they need to flick it on.”

“This week at Salesforce, we'll probably do about two trillion AI transactions, you know, with our, you know, total now Einstein and AgentForce platforms.”

“And then the fourth layer that will come will be the robotic drone layer, where those robots and drones will then feed off of the platform and all of these capabilities.”

“Look, it's gonna be a long time before, you know, I think jobs in the small town where I have a home will ever get You know, impacted, but in the large town where I have a home, San Francisco, well, then I just gave you an example where I think that jobs will …”

“No one like this. Never seen anything like it. Don't understand how it is even possible.”

“We'll do more than two trillion enterprise transactions this week.”

“We'll do thousands of agent force deals this quarter”

“We'll have more salespeople next year because we need to really explain to everybody exactly the value that we can achieve with AI. So we will add another probably one to 2000 salespeople in the short term.”

“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.”

“That I've moved my whole support infrastructure to the agentic platform. I will move my whole sales platform to the agentic platform as well. I'll move my whole company onto agent force for no other reason what to show my customers what is possible.”

“Even in the layoffs that we had, which were very dramatic in the company two years ago, we have hired a lot of those employees back into the company.”

“When I just rolled out AgentForce, you'll notice that we're not going to talk a lot about all of Salesforce's products, which are amazing. You know, on the podcast, I'm going to keep coming back to AgentForce because that's all I'm focused on right now.”

“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.”

“They're kind of commodities at this point. You know, Google has Gemini, there's ChatGPT, there's u.com, there's Perplexity, there's Copilot, there's all these things, you know, they're just on your phone, you're just talking to the, basically the same data set…”