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Why Startups Fails Even After Finding PMF | Prukalpa Sankar, Atlan
- ▶ 26:08 Prukalpa Sankar So this would be Salesforce, Snowflake, Databricks, so on.
- ▶ 1:00:07 Prukalpa Sankar The next round was, uh, Salesforce Ventures, Peak, and, um, uh, Insight, uh, co-led that round.
How Tanay Tandon is Building a $100 Billion Healthcare AI Company
- ▶ 19:23 Tanay Tandon And then he spun out and started his own company called Metamind, which was eventually acquired by Salesforce.
Slow Teams Lose PMF in 90 Days | Krishna M, Elevation Capital
- ▶ 14:44 Krishna Mehra But like Salesforce was started 2002, three, four, somewhere in that time frame.
- ▶ 40:28 Krishna Mehra The, in the Salesforce ecosystem and the ServiceNow ecosystem, there's so much development happening.
The Man Training GPT, Gemini & Claude Reveals What's Coming Next | Vijay Krishnan, Turing
- ▶ 45:05 Vijay Krishnan So let us maybe take an example of, uh, um, imagine you want to train a model to use a Salesforce. 3 times in the scene
The New Rules of Startups Moats with 3x Founder Mahesh Ram ex-Zoom Al
- ▶ 36:04 Mahesh Ram You know, there's SAP and Salesforce.
- ▶ 44:22 Mahesh Ram Salesforce has taken the lead by doing the headless thing. 3 times in the scene
And How Matic Won By Choosing the Most Boring Market in Robotics with Founders Mehul and Navneet
- ▶ 41:50 Mehul Nariyawala So I, my first job was at Salesforce.com. 2 times in the scene
How A Tiny Team Beat A $1 Billion Giant | Palash Soni, GoldCast Founder
- ▶ 1:02:54 Palash Soni Uh, then I would say Salesforce is there. 3 times in the scene
Questions Every Founder Must Answer Before Taking an Acquisition Offer | Shashank, VNDLY & Pantomath
- ▶ 9:04 Shashank Saxena Your Salesforce, your SAP, your Oracle, your Workday, your Coupa, Ariba, depending on whatever the system of record is for what category, you have those.
- ▶ 48:48 Shashank Saxena Salesforce was an investor in Wendly. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:38 Shashank Saxena Uh, Salesforce sells to a CRO, right?
- ▶ 1:23:35 Shashank Saxena So a lot of people, if you start your career at a SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow Workday, like, you've seen this side of the equation, but you've never been a customer.
Great Founders Aren't Writing Code. They're Building Its Immune System. | Animesh, PlayerZero
- ▶ 11:27 Animesh Koratana I think Salesforce is a good example, right? 2 times in the scene
How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)
- ▶ 8:19 Poojan Kumar Uh, and then, and then there is SaaS applications like Microsoft, three, 65, Salesforce, and so on and so forth that also require, uh, you know, backup, right?
- ▶ 25:20 Poojan Kumar It became a thing where, okay, irrespective of the destination of the data, where it's sitting in a SAS provider, uh, like Microsoft, three 65 or Salesforce or sitting in my data center or sitting in the cloud.
How Capillary Built a Culture That Created 50+ Founders | Aneesh Reddy
- ▶ 25:31 Aneesh Reddy We had not heard of Salesforce, like, you know, we, we had not heard of Salesforce by then. 2 times in the scene
After $9B IPO This Founder is Rebuilding Internet for Agents | Sudheesh Nair, Thoughtspot, Nutanix
- ▶ 12:10 Sudheesh Nair Today's software is built and hosted in cloud, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and then we all go to it.
- ▶ 25:33 Sudheesh Nair And this is the same thing applied to, you know, Salesforce and all of these companies now.
- ▶ 32:26 Sudheesh Nair Um, what I like is, you know, uh, I think Salesforce, which is one of those stock that is currently taking a hit, it went public. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:39 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Salesforce is trying to do, shove their AI through the CXO.
Why "Boring" Infrastructure is the Best Path to a $60B Company | Manish Jindal, Cloudflare & Arize
- ▶ 17:17 Manish Jindal Like, think about Salesforce, right? 6 times in the scene
Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
- ▶ 27:58 Ashmeet Sidana You know, I can call up people at Google, or Meta, or Cisco, or Salesforce, and have a conversation with them, and that's critical when you're doing diligence, or when you're trying to get a company sold, or perhaps signing a partnership…
Which AI Model are companies actually Paying For in 2026? | Rohit Agarwal, Portkey
- ▶ 36:31 Rohit Agarwal ServiceNow and Salesforce and Workday and all of these companies are being pushed to innovate. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:14 Rohit Agarwal AWS could always copy your product, or if you're in the Salesforce app store, Salesforce could all could always roll in your product.
- ▶ 42:14 Rohit Agarwal AWS could always copy your product, or if you're in the Salesforce app store, Salesforce could all could always roll in your product.
- ▶ 58:45 Rohit Agarwal Like, I shouldn't have to go to Salesforce, and then click on fields, and enter something, and then click save, and then it, there's a loader, and then it saves it.
Where SMALL models will Win | Sudarshan kamath, Smallest ai
- ▶ 54:47 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, today enterprises are getting bogged down from top down motions by Microsoft Salesforce on AI adoption.
AI Needs to Know Why You took THAT decision | Ashu Garg, Investor at Foundation Capital
- ▶ 41:04 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Like, for example, for Salesforce, they have to rewrite themselves. 6 times in the scene
How Digital TEAMMATES Transform Billion Dollar Industries? | Samay Kohli of GreyOrange & Budy.ai
- ▶ 0:33 Samay Kohli And they could write an email saying, hey, I found Salesforce just came out with a new update.
- ▶ 41:01 Samay Kohli So for enterprises, right, sure, the software, Salesforce updates the software every year.
- ▶ 42:38 Samay Kohli Three companies, all three using Salesforce, right, is completely different Salesforce. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:24 Samay Kohli Like even Salesforce, which is like, you know, such a mature software, right? 2 times in the scene
Is AI changing EVEN the Top Roles in startups?
- ▶ 8:23 Umesh Padval Like Nvidia, Salesforce, Cisco, AMD, Deutsche Telekom, um, LG, um, Fujitsu.
What Mistake Founders Make With A-Players | Matt MacInnis | COO Rippling
- ▶ 48:39 Matt MacInnis Um, and I know that's the opinion of Mark Benioff at Salesforce. 3 times in the scene
How Buyers Discover Startups, From a 10-Year Founder Journey to an EXIT | Ankur & Vishwa, Zenduty
- ▶ 12:39 unnamed speaker It would connect with HubSpot and Salesforce and Marketo and like a whole bunch of other tools and it would give you regular updates in Slack and there's like a whole bunch of automations that you can do as well, right?
Best of 3500 Minutes from Top Founders & Investors in 2025
- ▶ 10:41 Ashish Toshniwal Look at Salesforce. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:54 Ashish Toshniwal You know, Agent Force, Agent Einstein, Agent whatever, Agent Salesforce.
How AI Will Disrupt India’s IT Services Industry And Its 1.5M Engineers/Year | Bhaskar Ghosh, 8VC
- ▶ 4:55 Bhaskar Ghosh Software as a business can mean you're doing IT services consulting, BPO, in the context of SAP consulting, Salesforce consulting, ServiceNow consulting, MuleSoft consulting, database consulting, so on and so forth, testing, everything. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:07 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So it leads to the question, then, you know, companies like Snowflake, then, you know, ServiceNow, Salesforce got created in the last 15 years in enterprise, software, enterprise, infraspace. 2 times in the scene
Learn from Silicon Valley’s Best Companies (Hubspot, Google & Salesforce) w/Avanish Sahai
- ▶ 0:28 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Opening new markets or opening partnerships across Google Cloud, Salesforce, ServiceNow.
- ▶ 1:40 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And previously you have been, you know, a senior leader opening new markets or opening partnerships across Google Cloud, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and many other companies.
- ▶ 19:41 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So your career has spanned like 30 years, you know, McKinsey, Oracle, and Salesforce, you create, help create app exchange and, you know, took it to more than a billion dollars, uh, in ecosystem revenue. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:41 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So your career has spanned like 30 years, you know, McKinsey, Oracle, and Salesforce, you create, help create app exchange and, you know, took it to more than a billion dollars, uh, in ecosystem revenue.
- ▶ 27:12 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So, Salesforce replaced Siebel. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:47 Avanish Sahai I spent time when I was running the business for the AppExchange at Salesforce with the BMC team. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:47 Avanish Sahai When, when Salesforce created its first application, it was called Sales Cloud. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:44 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Salesforce, Google, ServiceNow, right? 4 times in the scene
How Ashish Toshniwal built a $350M Co after an email from Steve jobs | Ashish Toshniwal
- ▶ 10:07 Ashish Toshniwal And at that point, what happened, lot of these big companies, you know, whether it's Safeway or Salesforce or like SAP, they were like, look, this mobile thing is
What is Tesla’s Former CIO Building Next? 4 Years Stealth → $4B Company | Jay Vijayan, Tekion
- ▶ 40:35 Jay Vijayan Do we have enough money and time to build the entire, you know, true ERP backend, which is the general ledger, AP, AR, which is the, usually has been perfected by companies like SAP and Oracle, not even Salesforce, right?
Ola, Flipkart & Swiggy use This $800 Million Software to Send Notifications | Raviteja, MoEngage
- ▶ 1:19:27 Raviteja Dodda Um, and, um, yeah, I mean, I'm sure, uh, there's gonna be a lot of, uh, cross border SaaS companies with India roots that will happen and that will be large businesses, like the, like the HubSpot or the Salesforce of the world.
GPT-5 is NOT Your Competitor It's GPT-7 |Ashu Garg, Foundation Capital | Databricks,Turing, Cohesity
- ▶ 31:05 Ashu Garg Look at Salesforce. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:38 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So should founders attack the existing industries and try to replace ServiceNow, Salesforce, or should they focus more on the green field side?
4 Startups. 2 Founders and 3 Eras Of SaaS: Installable → Cloud → AI | Sreedhar & Kiran
- ▶ 32:54 Kiran Darisi So, in fact, uh, in twenty-eleven, uh, twenty-eleven, uh, Assistly has been bought by Salesforce for fifty million.
- ▶ 47:21 Siddhartha Ahluwalia There is a rally cry about, ok, is the, ah, approach of Salesforce, ah, in building CRM, is it outdated in the era of AI? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:13 Siddhartha Ahluwalia As a CRM, like Salesforce, Salesforce was the one company that I had in mind, because I do hear, ah, multiple, this evolving, ah, thought process around, Salesforce is probably on, on its decline. 3 times in the scene
How NVIDIA, Meta & Dropbox Taught Me To Build Great Products | Vasanth, Founder - Featurely
- ▶ 46:36 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Because Microsoft today wins, uh, or Salesforce wins, or Oracle wins, majorly because, you know, their distribution is in, if you talk about Fortune, 500, entire 500.
How To Hire, Train & Retain Talent To Build A Great Company | Vijay Rayapati | Khadim Batti
- ▶ 59:01 Khadim Batti I can go to a, uh, uh, manager operations or someone and say, okay, I'm going to help you improve your Salesforce productivity or ERP productivity, a hundred K, 50 K, fine.
$1Billion CRM From India Competing With Salesforce | Nilesh Patel, LeadSquared
- ▶ 0:18 Siddhartha Ahluwalia CRM space is a very deep category, very large category and going against the sales force of the world.
- ▶ 1:42 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I think CRM space is a very deep category, very large category and going against the sales force of the world.
- ▶ 12:48 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Salesforce is a two 50 billion dollar company today.
- ▶ 20:20 Nilesh Patel Some have, uh, some have, some people have gone to Salesforce and have come back and, and that happens, um, that happens, uh,
- ▶ 23:09 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Salesforce commands a hundred million dollars a year from Bajaj FinServe. 2 times in the scene
$200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
- ▶ 1:14:16 Sharad Sharma For example, uh, Salesforce has got such a lock in on customer facing, uh, kind of corporate use cases.
Nvidia’s Success, Chip Race, India’s Semiconductor Mission, & Hardware Vs Software | Raja Manickam
- ▶ 35:10 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And I heard, uh, like AWS, like CEOs of these companies, for example, Mark Benio from Salesforce, he was having dinner with Jensen Huang and trying to convince him to give him some more, trying to buy some more chips for AI. 2 times in the scene
Indian SaaS, AI Wave, IPO & Best Country For Co. Registration | 2024 Insights With SaaS Founder
- ▶ 8:59 Pallav Nadhani You want the best of the breed, but if you're like 50 different isolated sales or marketing tech tools, uh, the CFO will say, can I not have it in Salesforce or like one of the system of records?
- ▶ 1:09:36 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Only then we'll, uh, let's say a newer CRM has to replace Salesforce, right? 5 times in the scene
These 90 Minutes Will Teach You Everything About SaaS Business | SaaSBOOMi Co-Founder | Neon Show
- ▶ 1:20:05 Manav Garg So Salesforce is almost crossing billion dollars of revenue from India.
Deepfakes, AGI, Jobs Under Threat & More | DevRev Founder, Manoj Agarwal | Neon Show
- ▶ 2:59 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And you are taking directly on Salesforce.
- ▶ 9:10 Manoj Agarwal We put it in, let's say, Gendesk or Salesforce Service Cloud, those systems.
- ▶ 9:10 Manoj Agarwal We put it in, let's say, Gendesk or Salesforce Service Cloud, those systems.
MUST WATCH for Indians Abroad - Remote Work, House Help & More | Kovai.co Founder | Neon Show
- ▶ 38:38 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Salesforce, right? 7 times in the scene
American Venture Capitalist Explains India’s BRIGHT FUTURE by 2030 | Bhaskar Ghosh | Neon Show
- ▶ 32:58 Bhaskar Ghosh If you think of Salesforce, they're still sitting on a, what is essentially a database, which is their CRM database.
The India Opportunity, Youth’s BIGGEST Problem & Future of Startups | India Quotient VC on Neon Show
- ▶ 32:04 Anand Lunia Salesforce, 150 dollars a month is too expensive.
Podcasting to Investing: Breakdown of Our Journey | 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 12:07 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Similarly, what Khadim is doing is making training simpler on Salesforce. 2 times in the scene
How they built a $600M SaaS Company? Ft. Khadim Batti & Vara Kumar Namburu - Co-founders, Whatfix
- ▶ 12:06 Khadim Batti Like, take an example, you are head of sales for Coca-Cola, for example, and you are doing a digital transformation or changing your CRM stack from let's say Siebel to Salesforce. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:50 Khadim Batti Because the person is spending twenty million dollars on a sales force, a few 100,000 dollars actually, it's fine for ensuring there's a ROI on top of that platform. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:50 Khadim Batti So somebody buys Salesforce today. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:19 Sridhar Taluwalia Because you were sitting on top of the CRM, Salesforce, right?
Top SaaS startups to watch in 2023 with Alok Goyal, Investor in Whatfix, LimeChat, GTM Buddy
- ▶ 10:02 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And you already have, right, WhatFix is one of the poster childs from India helping large fortune, 500 enterprises in US, right, with implementation of SAP, Salesforce.
- ▶ 41:28 Alok Goyal Well, if Salesforce could do, could do everything, there won't be a sales stack today. 8 times in the scene
The Process & Preparation of IPO Ft. Tracxn Technologies Founders Neha Singh & Abhishek Goyal
- ▶ 34:52 Abhishek Goyal As a country, we want to build companies like Apple or Cisco, we have to, or Salesforce, we have to stop selling our companies.
Scaling From 0 to 120Cr+ Revenue Playbook For SaaS-Entrepreneurs in India Ft. Yamini Bhat, CEO-Vymo
- ▶ 25:13 Yamini Bhat In fact, Salesforce only ever raised sixty-five million, uh, right before going to IPO.
- ▶ 29:56 Yamini Bhat Like Salesforce has not already solved it, right?
Building Product That Sells Itself Ft. Dheeraj Pandey, CEO-DevRev, Co-Founder-Nutanix
- ▶ 39:03 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And Salesforce being the largest company in this day, like, Salesforce is almost like a, what, two hundred billion company today? 4 times in the scene
How A 23 year Old Created A $8M Yearly Revenue Content Marketplace Business ft. Anirudh Singla
- ▶ 22:49 Anirudh Singla And I think that's where, you know, the, uh, key part about how we think about our businesses or time for a business like this has come where today, what Salesforce has done to sales.
Building a Generational Company That's Changing the Way Legal Services are Delivered
- ▶ 7:55 Shashank Bijapur So think of us like the Salesforce for contracts.
Avlesh Singh on BUILDING WebEngage, 100 Cr Revenue Company & Being Resilient in the Last 10 Years!
- ▶ 26:42 Avlesh Singh I'm not sure if the, if the audience would be familiar, all these large software providers, Adobe's, Salesforce, Oracle, IBM's, except for Microsoft, everybody's in play.
SaaS from India to the US: Myths Debunked ft Anand Jain, Co-founder, CleverTap
- ▶ 40:18 Anand Jain He comes from Salesforce.
Inside the mind of Abhishek Goyal, Co-Founder, Tracxn | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast | Top Podcast Ep
- ▶ 46:37 Abhishek Goyal So think about Salesforce, things about Cisco, like even after 30 years, you, it would, it would have still made sense to stay put, like, and, and closer to home, like, think about infee, think about Wipro, not even a private market.
Jon Sakoda, Founder, Decibel Partners on importance of having a coach for early-stage founders
- ▶ 14:25 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So I think such venture funds at very early stage should be established if somebody's not thinking of working with in a similar model with sales force, you know, in B to B space, because, uh, 2 times in the scene
Inside the mind of Krishna Kumar, Founder, CropIn- the largest Agritech SaaS startup of India
- ▶ 50:13 Krishna Kumar Salesforce. 2 times in the scene
Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Director, Nexus VP on the success recipe of Druva and Postman
- ▶ 12:35 Jishnu Bhattacharjee And then of course, you know, the rest is history, but you know, that kind of tells us, and we actually sold that, sold him to Salesforce.
Shruti Gandhi, Array Ventures on taking SaaS companies from Zero to $10 Million ARR
- ▶ 6:36 Shruti Gandhi So funny story is like, to this day, like, unless there was like a big Salesforce tower, you know, erected in, in, in San Francisco, a lot of people didn't know what Salesforce even was.
Somesh Dash, IVP on learnings from the crisis of 2002 & 2008 and investing in resilient companies
- ▶ 32:22 unnamed speaker One was early Salesforce in 2000 and Zoom. 6 times in the scene
Inside the mind of Anand Chandrasekaran, on building 5 products with 10m+ users and angel investing
- ▶ 9:10 Anand Chandrasekaran Um, and so kind of excited about the trajectory forward and, uh, uh, being in kind of pretty elite company with, uh, uh, uh, with companies like Salesforce and, uh, Twilio and Adobe and so on and so forth.
Blume Ventures: Sanjay Nath on Post Covid-19 Scenario for Startups & Building Future of Work
- ▶ 18:24 Sanjay Nath and then you had a Salesforce for CRM.
Episode 49 | Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner, Prime Ventures
- ▶ 9:50 Sanjay Swamy Uh, you know, Salesforce had done that to CRM, and they were trying to do this for procurement.
100xEntrepreneur | Episode 14 | Karthik Reddy, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blume Ventures
- ▶ 18:57 Karthik Reddy I don't think as yet a Cisco or a Microsoft or a, you know, Salesforce is coming to India and buying a business for three billion dollars.