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Parker Harris

Co-Founder, Salesforce & CTO, Slack · 1 appearance on the record.

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In 1999, Parker Harris co-founded Salesforce alongside Marc Benioff, leading the architecture of its core platforms. He now serves as the CTO of Slack, directing its technical strategy, engineering team, and enterprise workflows.

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Insight
Harris: 90% AI reliability is insufficient for enterprise business
“As you know, Alex, like this technology can work, you know, maybe five times out of 10, seven times, nine times out of 10. But in business, you know, you need that predictability and that assurance that it's not going to mess with your brand. It's not going to…”
Parker Harris Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 5:51 Will AI Kill Software? — With Salesforce Co-Founder Parker Harris
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Harris: SaaS and graphical user interfaces will survive the AI transition
“Is SAS going away or is the graphical user interface going away? It's not going away. There's still a lot of good use cases for it”
Parker Harris Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 18:19 Will AI Kill Software? — With Salesforce Co-Founder Parker Harris
Disclosure
Harris: Salesforce Needs Fewer Support Reps Due to Agentforce Automation
“We actually, because this help.sale, the agent for us on the website is really helping us with this, you know, super simple support scenarios. We don't need as many support reps to do that job. What we do need is to retrain a lot of those people and get them i…”
Parker Harris Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 27:13 Will AI Kill Software? — With Salesforce Co-Founder Parker Harris
Opinion
Harris: Generative AI is bigger than the internet, mobile, and cloud shifts
“But I really think generative AI is bigger than all of that because we've had to completely retool our product strategy and our company and we're still in the middle of it.”
Parker Harris Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 2:20 Will AI Kill Software? — With Salesforce Co-Founder Parker Harris
Opinion
Harris: Salesforce risks being leapfrogged without fast agentic AI adoption
“If we don't go fast enough in this world of agentic AI, Some competitor will leverage us, leverage it to skip past us, and we're not gonna allow that to happen.”
Parker Harris Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 2:55 Will AI Kill Software? — With Salesforce Co-Founder Parker Harris
Opinion
Harris: Best AI innovations happen in post-training as data runs out
“It does seem like post training is where the best innovations are happening now and the pre-training and the amount of data, like they've, we've used up a lot of the data. They're trying to create synthetic data to try to improve model performance.”
Parker Harris Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 19:32 Will AI Kill Software? — With Salesforce Co-Founder Parker Harris
Insight
Harris: Corporate DIY AI implementations have suffered widespread failure
“So it was DIY all over the place. And there's a lot of failure in that. You know, it was, it, at first it was like, oh, so cool. Look at what it can do. But again, that repeatability, that trust, that security, the data access, all the things we've talked abou…”
Parker Harris Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 25:29 Will AI Kill Software? — With Salesforce Co-Founder Parker Harris
Insight
Harris: Enterprises cannot dump all data into LLMs without security models
“You can't just like, I want to take all the data of an enterprise and dump it in one place, you know, and you're not going to dump it into an LLM because LLM has no security model.”
Parker Harris Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 9:27 Will AI Kill Software? — With Salesforce Co-Founder Parker Harris

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Will AI Kill Software? — With Salesforce Co-Founder Parker Harris Oct 14, 2025 22m
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