Benioff: Agentforce has shipped to all 135,000 Salesforce customers
Marc Benioff · Behind the founder: Marc Benioff · Dec 22, 2024 · at 25:23
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff outlines his strategic priorities for driving enterprise adoption of the Agentforce AI platform.
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“I just shipped the product into all 135,000 Salesforce customers. So it's their nascent and they need to flick it on.”
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