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Salesforce hired fake protesters outside Siebel's 2000 conference to drive hype
“We hired a bunch of actors, and they were doing this event in San Francisco, and, you know, San Francisco is very woke, so, you know, nobody, you know, people expect a protest, a good protest. So we had, got some picket signs at Home Depot and made some signs,…”
Salesforce laid off 10% of its workforce 'to save the company'
“One of those things that we did two years ago was we had to architect a layoff, and we had never done a scaled layoff before. We had to lay off 10% of the company to save the company”
Lemkin: 14-day trials originated to fit Salesforce monthly sales cycles
“The reason, one of the reasons we have 14 day trials on the internet is in the old days, the Salesforce sales team, when they were S and B focused one to close deals that month. So they forced Salesforce to move from 30 to 40 days. There was no evidence it was…”
Benioff: Agentforce has shipped to all 135,000 Salesforce customers
“I just shipped the product into all 135,000 Salesforce customers. So it's their nascent and they need to flick it on.”
Lemkin: Salesforce Is Hiring More Field Sales Reps Than Ever
“I mean, you know, the enterprise leaders are hiring more field sales people than ever. Salesforce is hiring more than ever.”