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Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer Vaccine
- ▶ 9:11 Jason Calacanis I mean, they blew the doors off this, and also, we'll talk a little bit about Salesforce also coming back, and the SaaSpocalypse ending. 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:14 Jason Calacanis His agents might be a little bit behind, but you're also going to get those agents for free inside of Salesforce. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:46 David Sacks We are kind of counting on AI as the deus ex machina to grow our way out of this thing, and we really need, I mean, we need more quarters like NVIDIA and Salesforce just posted.
Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI
- ▶ 58:04 David Sacks I think there's some things about Airtable that make it very different than, I don't know, let's say a Salesforce or a Workday is
- ▶ 1:02:22 David Sacks out of 15 cabinet agencies run on Salesforce. 2 times in the scene
Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable CEO on the Real Promise of Vibe Coding
- ▶ 37:29 Jason Calacanis You know, uh, foundational pieces of software that every startup, every enterprise uses, Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, ah, the Google suite, Microsoft Office, will bespoke software 2 times in the scene
Open Source Wins, AGI Is Here, and Scorsese’s AI Toolkit with CEOs of Cerebras & Black Forest Labs
- ▶ 34:35 Jason Calacanis You know, just like now, we're like, make me a new version of Salesforce, and we're like,
World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal
- ▶ 53:58 David Friedberg They're going to use tools like Salesforce and, you know, 80, 90 and other things.
Palo Alto Networks CEO: "AI Found 5 Years of Bugs in 6 Weeks"
- ▶ 7:27 Nikesh Arora You can buy Salesforce marketplace. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:12 Nikesh Arora I want my sales management system built by the new agentic AI Salesforce of the world, whether it says for somebody else.
Why Secondary Markets Are Eating the IPO | All-In Liquidity Secondary Markets Panel
- ▶ 33:17 Brad Gerstner So, they're building, basically, Salesforce.
Thomas Laffont: The $4T AI IPO Wave Is Coming… and We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It
- ▶ 6:45 Thomas Laffont Salesforce on the way just in January.
Bill Ackman: Here's What the Market is MISSING
- ▶ 7:00 Bill Ackman I worry more about a Salesforce, um, than I do about your kind of, um, I think you gotta do the work.
Trump-Xi Summit, Benioff: "Not My First SaaSpocalypse," OpenAI vs Apple, Multi-Sensory AI, El Niño
- ▶ 0:09 Jason Calacanis So we got to get Mark Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.
- ▶ 10:00 Marc Benioff We, ah, well, with the right, the Chinese have a lot of data residency laws, so, ah, you know, we, we do it as, we don't have any offices or employees in China, we never have. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:47 Marc Benioff Hey, if it wasn't for Tony Robbins, I don't think there would be a Salesforce, so there you go.
- ▶ 31:58 Jason Calacanis So Salesforce down a whopping 37%, ninety billion in losses for you. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:54 Marc Benioff Like, I am gonna probably use three hundred million dollars of Anthropic this year at Salesforce coding. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:39 Marc Benioff And by the way, and our core sales cloud and service clouds as well.
- ▶ 44:39 Marc Benioff And by the way, and our core sales cloud and service clouds as well.
- ▶ 52:15 Marc Benioff We're going for dolphin flow at Salesforce.
- ▶ 53:34 David Friedberg Maybe Salesforce does too, Mark.
- ▶ 1:14:08 Marc Benioff When I started Salesforce, we put one percent of our equity, one percent of our profit, and one percent of all of our employees time into a foundation. 2 times in the scene
Software Stocks Implode, Claude's Hit List, State of the Union Reactions, Trump's Tariff Pivot
- ▶ 13:34 David Sacks What if it doesn't eliminate, I don't think AI is going to get rid of Salesforce, but it could eat into their growth opportunity.
Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
- ▶ 17:16 Jason Calacanis Salesforce 11. 6 times in the scene
Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos!
- ▶ 36:40 Brian Armstrong So it's like every Slack message, every Google doc, every Salesforce data confluence, you know, so now, um, this is all linked up in one, like the data is all aggregated and you can ask these agents.
All-In's 2026 Predictions
- ▶ 1:09:03 Jason Calacanis If you're not adding staff, you can't, uh, you know, you don't have more people using Salesforce.
Massive Somali Fraud in Minnesota with Nick Shirley, California Asset Seizure, $20B Groq-Nvidia Deal
- ▶ 1:39:20 Chamath Palihapitiya But Slack, we sold to Salesforce.
Home Affordability Crisis, Palantir's Advantage, Big Short on AI, H-1B Abuse, Solar Storm Hits Earth
- ▶ 11:22 Chamath Palihapitiya Salesforce, 2018.
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate
- ▶ 1:00:47 Jason Calacanis Salesforce, uh, did an eight billion dollar acquisition. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:40 Jason Calacanis We'll see if Intercom, Salesforce, HubSpot, we see if all of those people start Slack, start losing their customer base, or if they lower their pricing to make it just too easy to keep those systems in.
White House BTS, Google buys Wiz, Treasury vs Fed, Space Rescue
- ▶ 33:28 Jason Calacanis Obviously, we know the wrath of Lena Khan was pretty acute for the last four years, but, uh, looking back in history, Salesforce buying Slack, which our bestie Chamath here was an early investor in for twenty-seven billion that occurred in…
- ▶ 50:56 David Friedberg This has been the reason so many enterprise software companies over time from Oracle to Salesforce to Microsoft have been acquisitive and can make acquisitions very synergistic.
Epstein Files Flop, State of the Market, Autonomous Robots, Trump's Gold Card, Friedberg on Jeopardy
- ▶ 25:11 Chamath Palihapitiya There's a big, and you, you can see it with what's happening to Salesforce and other big companies is that these renewal cycles are getting harder and harder to justify.
Remote Work Under Fire: All-In Podcast Unpacks Jamie Dimon’s Leaked Rant!
- ▶ 6:06 Chamath Palihapitiya There wasn't Salesforce. 2 times in the scene
The Stablecoin Future, Milei's Memecoin, DOGE for the DoD, Grok 3, Why Stripe Stays Private
- ▶ 26:39 Chamath Palihapitiya There wasn't Salesforce. 2 times in the scene
All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
- ▶ 34:26 David Friedberg Um, they integrate with tools like Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, and Unified Voice, SMS, WhatsApp, social channels, um, into one solution, and you get three months of free Aircall if you go to aircall.io slash all in.
Trump's market impact: Bitcoin, M&A, IPOs + transition picks; Polymarket CEO raided by FBI
- ▶ 11:17 Jason Calacanis I think it'll be more like Salesforce or Microsoft or Google or Amazon getting off the sidelines because they've looked at and said, you know what, the juice ain't worth the squeeze.
OpenAI's $150B conversion, Meta's AR glasses, Blue-collar boom, Risk of nuclear war
- ▶ 26:37 Chamath Palihapitiya Salesforce. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:33 David Sacks and I think he got a little bit triggered by the idea that systems of record like Salesforce are going to be obsolete in this new AI era. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:57 David Sacks So look, I, I think that on the whole, I agree with Benioff here that there's more net new opportunity for AI companies, whether they be startups or, you know, come existing big companies like Salesforce that are trying to do AI.
Nikesh Arora | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 13:12 Nikesh Arora And look around, you know, Benioff, I think it's gonna be here, builds a, builds a platform for Salesforce. 2 times in the scene
Big Fed rate cuts, AI killing call centers, $50B govt boondoggle, VC's rough years, Trump/Kamala
- ▶ 27:29 Chamath Palihapitiya And by the way, just to build on that, the other thing that's now possible, and you saw this with Klarna, because Klarna put out this, like, cryptic tweet slash press release where, I think maybe it was in their earnings, Nick, maybe you… 5 times in the scene
Marc Benioff | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 0:09 unnamed speaker And the king of the cloud is Salesforce.
- ▶ 11:44 David Friedberg You started Salesforce back in 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:57 Marc Benioff Created the foundation of the company, because we were able to do now, and I think you know the numbers, right, where, you know, almost ten million hours of volunteerism, we've been able to give away almost a billion in grants, we run… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:01 Marc Benioff But we all seen the movies and, you know, like Peter Schwartz who wrote or was a key part of writing a minority report and, um, also war games, uh, you know, as our chief futurist at Salesforce and a decade, more than a decade ago, I had…
- ▶ 18:19 Marc Benioff And bought a bunch of companies and put together Einstein and Einstein has done amazing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:31 Marc Benioff Um, it's the culmination really of everything that we've done at Salesforce, because to make AgentForce really deliver, we had to have all of our customer touchpoints wired up, which we do. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:45 Marc Benioff Um, on this, uh, Macintosh, uh, you know, on the 68,000 assembler, and, uh, sitting there, and the cubes, and Steve is running, whatever it was, and thank God, you know, I had this relationship, and influenced me so much in my life, and… 4 times in the scene
The Besties Take Napa | All-In Special
- ▶ 6:57 Chamath Palihapitiya Essentially, we're like, you know, 15 companies that need a replacement to Salesforce just say, here's the bounty, and here's the feature set, and it's a crowdsourced or a community-sourced PRD, and then some LLM spits out the code.
Presidential Debate Reaction, Biden Hot Swap?, Tech unemployment, OpenAI considers for-profit & more
- ▶ 1:03:57 Jason Calacanis Looks like Salesforce, uh, just got a big win. 3 times in the scene
Trump verdict, COVID Cover-up, Crypto Corner, Salesforce drops 20%, AI correction?
- ▶ 1:04:18 Jason Calacanis Salesforce dropped more than 20% after reporting earnings. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:41 Chamath Palihapitiya I think that if you look at what happened before we had a cycle where very large monolithic software was replaced by these SAS vendors and Salesforce led that charge and they, they led the, in many ways, the definition of the cloud. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:28 David Sacks Then it was big data and they launched Einstein.
- ▶ 1:17:46 David Friedberg Just to jump back for a second on the Salesforce point. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:37:36 Jason Calacanis The market also, after we talked about Salesforce, a bunch of the SaaS companies took a dive in the after hours.
E173: Google buying HubSpot? FTX depositors not made whole, AI job fears, Ukraine joining NATO
- ▶ 29:26 David Friedberg So you use CRM tools, customer relationship management tools, Salesforce is obviously a behemoth in the space, but HubSpot has this integrated marketing automation and CRM platform. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:18 David Sacks It's a competitor to Salesforce. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:02 David Friedberg Well, we can't buy Salesforce.
E165: Vision Pro: use or lose? Meta vs Snap, SaaS recovery, AI investing, rolling real estate crisis
- ▶ 33:52 David Sacks So we're still waiting to hear from HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoom, Adobe, companies like that.
- ▶ 1:03:24 Chamath Palihapitiya It's integrated into how you pipe out data into Salesforce or what have you.
E161: US strikes Houthis, market instability, Q1 rate cuts in doubt, Carta's major mishap, DEI
- ▶ 45:24 Jason Calacanis And Salesforce, by the way, just announced zero hiring in 20, 24. 3 times in the scene
E158: Global trade disrupted, Adobe/Figma canceled, realtors sued, Trump blocked
- ▶ 44:38 Jason Calacanis Yeah, I mean, Salesforce was able to acquire Slack, that was twenty-twenty.
E156: Ivy League antisemitism, macro, SaaS recovery, Gemini, Figma deal delay + big Friedberg update
- ▶ 44:50 Chamath Palihapitiya Because you had enough companies there that were public that were sassy software companies, including Salesforce.
- ▶ 1:00:53 Jason Calacanis They're not having like a Salesforce, 300,000 dollar offer coming in or a Google, 400,000 dollar offer coming in.
E137: Inflation cools, market rips, Ripple/MSFT beat regulators, NATO summit, cocktails of youth
- ▶ 13:48 Chamath Palihapitiya And the problem is all of the old legacy software companies, ex of Salesforce, have still not got to profitability.
E123: Trump indictment, de-dollarization, should VCs back Chinese AI? RIP Bob Lee
- ▶ 1:11:42 David Friedberg And that's right where the Salesforce, uh, offices used to be.
E121: Macro update, Fed hike, CRE debt bubble, Balaji's Bitcoin bet, TikTok's endgame & more
- ▶ 23:46 Jason Calacanis In Salesforce's case, they're subleasing a 125,000 square feet.
E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 37:24 Jason Calacanis So of course you're referencing Salesforce.
- ▶ 52:23 Jason Calacanis So as everybody knows, Benioff and Salesforce have had a lot of turnover. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:26 Brad Gerstner If I was an owner of Salesforce or Expedia, I was diluted by about 25%.
E113: DOJ tries to break up Google, vaccine questions, Ukraine escalation & more
- ▶ 25:03 Chamath Palihapitiya To Salesforce, it sort of waters down that claim because now Salesforce also has a set of really essential products that are useful and needed in the market that Slack can go and attach themselves to. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:16 Jason Calacanis And if you look at Slack itself, it's still growing the same percentage growth it did inside of Salesforce that it did as an independent company. 2 times in the scene
E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem
- ▶ 1:03:33 Jason Calacanis And as we talk about austerity and doing more with less and the 80% less people running Twitter now or Amazon laying off 18,000 people Salesforce laying off 8000 Facebook laying off 10 and probably another 10,000.
E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions!
- ▶ 41:01 Jason Calacanis He considers Salesforce or family. 3 times in the scene
E108: Doxing debate, Nuclear fusion breakthrough, state of the markets & more
- ▶ 1:14:51 David Friedberg And by the way, just look as an example at what Oracle did over the years, what Salesforce did over the years, what Google did.
E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
- ▶ 1:26:45 David Sacks The big thing this week is that Salesforce had its quarter and I would consider Salesforce to be the bellwether for the whole SAS category. 6 times in the scene
E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more
- ▶ 18:26 Chamath Palihapitiya And Slack, I think is the best example where, you know, Microsoft teams was fundamentally cannibalizing this business, which is what drove Slack into the arms of Salesforce.
E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more
- ▶ 38:32 Chamath Palihapitiya And now you're going head to head against companies like Salesforce who are going down market. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:03 David Friedberg Many of the big enterprise software companies that we've talked about from Salesforce to Workday and others have succeeded in doing that.
- ▶ 59:45 Jason Calacanis Salesforce didn't buy it.
#AIS: Opening chat with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez
- ▶ 1:33 Jason Calacanis Salesforce in a record transaction for a SaaS company.
E80: Recession deep dive: VC psychology, macro risks, Tiger Global, predictions and more
- ▶ 56:46 Chamath Palihapitiya Do you remember when Salesforce first passed a billion dollars of ARR? 2 times in the scene
E73: Late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy, Ukraine/Russia update with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 9:35 Chamath Palihapitiya Like if you look at a ServiceNow or a Salesforce at the high end,
E67: Revisiting Rogan, Canadian truckers' protest, fusion breakthrough, $MSFT's savvy move & more
- ▶ 1:08:20 Jason Calacanis Salesforce just bought a retreat syndrome, and we saw this south of the city, uh, the Bay Area, and because Benioff's got a concern, I guess, that all these employees he hired over two years who've never met another Salesforce employee are… 2 times in the scene
E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
- ▶ 47:46 Chamath Palihapitiya The product portfolio, he, you know, we had to compete with him at Slack when he was, you know, he decided to turn the the sites on on with teams onto us, we had no choice but to basically sell to Salesforce.
E54: Spread trading big tech, capital allocation, Zillow's misfire, Progressives suffer losses
- ▶ 14:12 Chamath Palihapitiya And lo and behold, 18 months later, the only real long-term protective solution for Slack shareholders was to basically get bought by Salesforce so that you could be part of a bigger whole.
E35: Biogen's controversial Alzheimer's drug approval, the billionaire space race, Bitcoin & more
- ▶ 55:30 Chamath Palihapitiya What do you what did you guys think of that's press release that Salesforce sent out which said something to the effect of like they are becoming an entirely slack
E29: Coinbase goes public, direct listings vs. IPOs, unions & more with Bestie Guestie Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 4:36 Chamath Palihapitiya It kind of languished, you know, slack did that until the Salesforce acquisition.
E27: The Great Inflation Debate, Amazon gets spicy on Twitter, rethinking supply chains & more
- ▶ 1:02:37 David Sacks Uh, and they gotta be worried about Salesforce now buying Slack.
E26: State of Venture Capital, plus fan questions on longevity, decentralization & quantum computing
- ▶ 56:52 David Sacks Well, now you're seeing what Slack just got acquired by Salesforce for close to thirty billion.
E15: “The Besties” All-In’s inaugural award show covering the best, worst & most memorable of 2020
- ▶ 45:57 Jason Calacanis Uh, I had, I had another smart business move I just wanted to point out, which was Salesforce buying Slack. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:33 Jason Calacanis I picked my smartest business move with Salesforce buying Slack. 2 times in the scene
E14: Salesforce acquires Slack, DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, Trust Fund Socialists & more
- ▶ 0:52 Jason Calacanis We're gonna talk this week about, uh, Salesforce buying Slack, Trump and Section two 30, uh, the Coinbase, the ongoing Coinbase saga, uh, Freeberg found some interesting science that could save humanity.
- ▶ 3:48 Jason Calacanis Chamath, we saw this week, in fact, just two days ago, Salesforce in a record transaction for a SaaS company, I think it's the highest ever paid for a SaaS company, twenty seven billion dollars, 27.7 billion dollars for Slack, which has… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:43 Jason Calacanis That I don't know if you remember Elon getting into a public spat with him where he's like, Salesforce is horrible software. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:57 Chamath Palihapitiya Because you could look at this acquisition and say, wow, Salesforce is crazy for spending thirty billion dollars. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:34 David Sacks Um, but Benioff's dream has always been, at least since he, uh, you know, launched Chatter to compete with, with us when we were doing Yammer. 5 times in the scene
E12: Biden wins, Pfizer vaccine, markets rip, Trump's next act, COVID endgame scenarios & more
- ▶ 1:13:21 David Friedberg And, uh, Uber set up here and Twitter and Square and Salesforce, uh,