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Garg: Dozens of startups are poised to eat Salesforce's lunch
“I think there are dozens of companies that are poised to eat Salesforce's lunch. But those companies, despite the distribution disadvantage, are positioning themselves to do so.”
Salesforce leads in headless AI architecture but lacks a monetization strategy
“Salesforce has taken the lead by doing the headless thing. Most, most other companies haven't figured that out and they don't know how to, because Salesforce hasn't figured out how they're going to monetize it.”
Jindal: Arize uses Cursor over BigQuery to eliminate internal data analysts
“Even in my current company all our systems data, like Salesforce, HubSpot, and everything even Gong data, we actually put into BigQuery, you know, every data, and then we have we have cursor sitting on top of BigQuery, and if anything I want, I just ask cursor…”
Ashu Garg is actively buying Salesforce, Snowflake, and ServiceNow stock
“And so I am bullish that they will also capture some share of this value. And so I, I'm a buyer of Salesforce and I'm a buyer of Salesforce stock. I'm a buyer of Snowflake stock and I'm a buyer of ServiceNow stock.”
Kohli: The original promise of seamless SaaS failed for enterprise customers
“That promise has not been true for enterprise. It might be true for consumer SaaS products, right? Like, you know, if you call Gmail a SaaS product or you call Zoom as a SaaS product, right? Sure, it's true. But, I mean, that's not the bulk of the SaaS product…”
Nair: Buying safe software like Salesforce or IBM won't bring promotions
“The simplest thing is you also don't get promoted for buying IBM. And this is the same thing applied to, you know, Salesforce and all of these companies now. They're all like safe choices.”
Jindal: Long-Term Tech Winners Are Easier to Pick in Backend Infrastructure
“In a long run, it's much easier, I believe, to pick a winner where you're sitting on in the back end versus on the front end, unless you are a data, you own the data, like Salesforce.”
Agarwal: 20% stock drops after AI announcements force legacy SaaS into agents
“ServiceNow and Salesforce and Workday and all of these companies are being pushed to innovate. Like in other cases, they're like, we have large go to market motions. There's a revenue that we can easily protect and you don't have to, but because they see these…”
Kohli: LLMs replacing enterprise CRMs is hype due to edge-case costs
“Imagine if you're a user and you're like, Hey, Claude, go build me a CRM. Claude's like, sure, I'll build you a CRM, but by the way, it'll cost you a million dollars because I have to take care of all the thousands of edge cases. You're like, no, no, no, no, n…”
Dodda: Multiple Indian cross-border SaaS companies will reach Salesforce scale
“Yeah, I mean, I'm sure there's gonna be a lot of cross border SaaS companies with India roots that will happen and that will be large businesses, like the HubSpot or the Salesforce of the world. I think I'm sure you will see a lot, we'll see a lot more of this…”
Sharma: Indian Startups Will Struggle Against Incumbents Like Salesforce In AI
“Similarly, I would say in many corporate use cases you know, will we be able to win? I don't think so. For example Salesforce has got such a lock in on customer facing kind of corporate use cases. And since our way of thinking about those use cases is more or …”
Nadhani: Growing startups using Linear will eventually migrate to Jira
“My hunch is at some point when they grow large enough, not the not linear, but the companies and they need more processes, they will have to sort of move up. Like people move from HubSpot to Salesforce”
Salesforce is Approaching $1 Billion in Indian Market Revenue
“Salesforce is almost crossing billion dollars of revenue from India.”
Kumar: GTM execution, not technology, is the main bottleneck for Indian SaaS
“Today, you can build a sales force. Building Salesforce is not a problem. Only the GTM part is is the problem because that is what we are lagging because we didn't learn the playbook in the last 20 years. So only technology part we learned.”
Kumar: India will build Salesforce-scale tech giants in 10-20 years
“I think maybe in the next two, 20 years, we will see something like the next wave. Like, you know, now we are building products. It's all about now. How do you build a large scale products like Salesforce or Microsoft? It will happen. Eventually it will happen…”
Pandey: Traditional CRM tools are sales force automation, not real CRM
“Because the CRM tools were built for salespeople. And honestly, it's not customer relationship management. It is Salesforce automation. While CRM means customer relationship management, and that includes their clicks, their interests, their biases, what they d…”
Mehra: Salesforce and ServiceNow horizontal shift creates startup opportunities
“The, in the Salesforce ecosystem and the ServiceNow ecosystem, there's so much development happening. Those guys are trying to go more horizontal. So there's more opportunity for new players to emerge.”
Koratana: Traditional SaaS records final outputs but loses decision context
“The key insight behind context graphs was that the last decade of SaaS basically has been built around this idea of a system of record, right? I think Salesforce is a good example, right? Probably the most, you know, central system of record, probably the most…”
Garg: Context graphs are built on multi-system processes, not single-vendor data
“Context graphs are not bound by system constraints. You're not going to build a context graph on top of your Salesforce data. You're going to build a context graph on top of your sales process. And every business process touches dozens of systems in a large co…”
Patel: Some customers left LeadSquared for Salesforce and returned
“Some have some have, some people have gone to Salesforce and have come back and that happens that happens I won't say a lot, but it happens.”
Ghosh: Highly Sticky SaaS Companies Require Platform and Data Moats
“SaaS companies tend to be built where there is some platform and data mode placed somewhere. If you think about ServiceNow, they're still sitting on this data mode, which is their CMDB. If you think of Salesforce, they're still sitting on a, what is essentiall…”
Sahai: Disruption occurs when challengers build simpler, easier-to-deploy enterprise tools
“You have to imagine that someone somewhere in a garage or in whatever we work or whatever it may be, is thinking about how what you do as the incumbent is not good enough, is not delivering value to the customer. It's not easy to deploy. It's not easy to use. …”
Sahai: Platform and partner strategies maximize enterprise software stickiness
“How do you bring other capabilities through a platform strategy and then think about partners who can augment that? The more you do that, frankly, the more sticky you become, the harder you are to displace.”
Yamini Bhat: Salesforce raised only $65M before IPO
“Salesforce only ever raised sixty-five million right before going to IPO.”
Nexus VP's first investment DimDim was a precursor to Zoom
“The first investment that Nexus made was in early in a company called DimDim, which would have been Zoom. Like, if you look at it was exactly Zoom, Zoom prior to Zoom. The idea was, you know, Webex and others didn't have the experience, and this gentleman out …”