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30-Year Debt on Software Giants is Highly Risky Due to Tech Disruption
“Am I worried about four-year paper in most of the software names? Probably not. I mean, they're contracted out. This is not a four-year issue. That, that paper should be money good. Would I be worried about holding 30 year credit on, on, on, on ... On Salesfor…”
Vlad Barbalat Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 56:35 Investing a $120 Billion Balance Sheet with No Outside Investors · Invest Like The Best
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Slack Revoked Glean’s API Access to Protect Its Own Platform Value
“Slack has done it most publicly. Slack is owned by Salesforce. They cut off access to Glean, where Glean can no longer access Slack data. And the reason is they don't want Glean to build on top of them. And then slowly suck out the value that Slack has.”
Gokul Rajaram Jan 29, 2026 ▶ 14:55 He Built The Revenue Engines for Google, Facebook & Square · Invest Like The Best
Opinion
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.”
David George Dec 2, 2025 ▶ 1:11:32 How a16z Growth Invests · Invest Like The Best
Opinion
Horowitz: Displacing incumbents like Salesforce or SAP with AI remains extremely difficult
“If you look at existing software companies, like people think, oh, they're all dead. Some of these guys are extremely hard targets. Like it's not that easy to take out Salesforce or SAP. You would be surprised even with AI, like how much heavy lifting that is.”
Ben Horowitz Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 7:45 Why The Laws of Startup Physics Have Changed | Ben Horowitz Interview · Invest Like The Best
Disclosure
One AI Startup Spent Two Years Building Legacy CRM Data Migration
“One of the, one of my companies is an AI-native company. They literally hired engineers in a European, Eastern European country for two years to build this migration thing, transition tool.”
Gokul Rajaram Jan 29, 2026 ▶ 19:39 He Built The Revenue Engines for Google, Facebook & Square · Invest Like The Best
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