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“We were really the first AI that was built where it was able to operate on the data without us seeing the data.”

“I've given away more than a billion dollars to all kinds of organizations, mostly in San Francisco, mostly our university, mostly UCSF.”

“I have a program called OneT.org, the Trillion Tree Program, trying to sequester 200 gigatons of carbon with a trillion trees.”

“When we made that shift, then that next month we were cash flow positive, and we've never looked back on that.”

“If you're gonna do philanthropy right in your company, you've gotta make it part of your culture. And the only way you're really gonna make it part of your culture is day one, you gotta say, okay, we're really in it to win it on philanthropy.”

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

“We don't have any offices or employees in China, we never have. The only time we end up with any residue in China is when we buy a company, and they have a presence over there, and then we have to divest from it. We have an exclusive partnership with Alibaba, …”

“We're even working on technology inside Slack, To make it easier for everybody to code. So I think it's going to be really breaking news there. You're going to see some cool stuff with slack and code.”

“He's like, oh, this, and you know, he's building this huge data center now.”

“If you are your Slack user, you need to see the Slack bot that we introduced here, which is built on Anthropic. It's also amazing. So we use open AI. We use Anthropic. We use Gemini. I just did an interview with Sundar, you know, you can see it on YouTube. We …”

“We have a 150,000 maybe customers on our core. There's a million customers on Slack.”

“You probably heard of the beast, Jimmy, Jimmy Donaldson. His team is here. They're running on Salesforce. They're a huge media company now.”

“I think we did give guidance at about 40.9 billion for this year.”

“And my vision is if you're in Slack, you are in Tableau and you are in Salesforce.”

“We're the second largest software company in Japan.”

“And that whole cycle from idea to innovation to actually delivery with Lennar, because they're live now, was about six months.”

“And at that data later, it's not just about the Salesforce data, which is 230 petabytes of data.”

“I had done some angel investing, and it was kind of a cool moment where some of my companies started to go public, including Siebel Systems and others, and Saba Software, and people I had met at Oracle, like Tom Siebel and Bobby Azdani”

“And I wrote the first native assembly language on the Macintosh. It's kind of a crazy thing to be able to say, but it's, True that I was writing these example programs for this Macintosh 68,000 development system in, on these, you know, Apple headquarter build…”

“I'm doing a huge amount of AI work for them and agent force work.”

“So we ended up in the mid three hundred billion dollars in market cap. And, you know, when I think back I think our stock was about one third this value two years ago, one third.”

“We're building an agentic layer completely around the airport with Heathrow so that from the beginning of your journey to your end, you're going to be partnered with an agent to make sure you have an absolutely great experience at Heathrow.”

“We have over 230 petabytes of that data in our platform, and that makes it very unique”

“We also use a lot of other models. We change that on a regular basis, and we've invested in a lot of model companies, including Anthropic and Mistral and Cohere and many Many of them.”

“Even personally, I've invested in many amazing models. I've invested in an incredible new next-gen model company from Fei Fei Li, who ran AI at Stanford. Her husband runs research for me at Salesforce.”

“Another incredible company that I'm personally an investor in is you.com company that I invested myself. I named it myself. The founder is the former head of Salesforce research.”

“So I have 9000 people in support today.”

“I saw all those models too, and while I added it into Salesforce, I didn't pivot Salesforce entirely around deep learning.”

“We almost bought one. You probably remember we almost bought Twitter.”

“I'm an investor in the company. They're great.”

“Look, I think that, you know, that the growth obviously is incredible to thirty eight billion and obviously the cash flow is incredible. You know, it's more than Coca-Cola did, I think last quarter and the margin is incredible.”

“I've always lived half and half, back and forth.”

“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.”

“When we started Salesforce, 25 years ago, we put one percent of our equity, one percent of our product and all of our employees time, one percent of our employees time into a foundation.”

“I worked for him in 1984 in the Macintosh division when I was writing assembly language code.”