Salesforce
includes Salesforce Service Cloud, Salesforce Pardot, Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 statements across 8 episodes · 2 bullish · 5 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Dec 19, 2024 by Marty Kausas · said 137 times in 42 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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2026 34 mentions in 11 episodes 3 per episode
- He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
- Sold $10M business to bet on a side app—grew it to $20M ARR | Within
- She got rejected by 22 VCs—then built 6sense to $100M+ in revenue. Now she's back for AI. | Amand... · PMF Show
- Fired almost everyone, kept 2 engineers—grew 12x, raised $30M Series A | Notch
- He raised $150M with $0 revenue. Then hit $1M ARR in 4 months. | Michel Tricot, Co-Founder of Air... · PMF Show
- His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
- He hit $1M ARR by sending 500,000 cold emails—then raised a $25M Series A in 6 days. | Mark Hughe... · PMF Show
- Coinbase's ex-CPO bet on AI agents before ChatGPT—now he's closing 7-figure Fortune 500 deals. | ... · PMF Show
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 63 mentions in 19 episodes 3 per episode
- He went 7 years with no revenue— then grew to $100M ARR. | Rob Woollen, Co-Founder of Sigma · PMF Show
- He quit his job, went all-in on AI agents—then grew to 100K users & a $30M Series A in a year. | ... · PMF Show
- He built a $20B public company, left—then raised a $100M Series A. | Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of N... · PMF Show
- Solo Episode: B2B SaaS is dead. Here's what the best AI founders are doing instead. · PMF Show
- How his AI-first services company grew $0 to $40M ARR in one year. | Eric Foster, Founder of Tenex · PMF Show
- He left a $2B ARR company to build AI agents—then hit $1M ARR in ＜ 6 months | Amit Shah, Founder ... · PMF Show
- Post-YC, he split with his co-founder—then grew profitably to $2M ARR with just 5 people. | Jon Y... · PMF Show
- Her VCs said she killed the company. 6 years later, it's worth $1.3B. | Jennifer Smith, Founder o... · PMF Show
- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 37 mentions in 10 episodes 4 per episode
- YC said his idea "would never work". So he lived in his office for months—then raised $17M from a... · PMF Show
- He refused to quit his job until $1M ARR—then grew to $5M ARR & closed a $25M Series A. | Pierce ... · PMF Show
- He grew to $22M ARR in 4 years—but regrets spending so much on growth. | Chris Walker, Founder of... · PMF Show
- In 2004, they "almost bankrupted themselves". In 2024, they hit $500M ARR & a $5B valuation. | Mi... · PMF Show
- 99% of founders SUCK at storytelling. Here's the pro who taught Slack & Salesforce how to do it. ... · PMF Show
- They hit $100M ARR—in a "crowded market". Here's how they got to $1M ARR in just 18 months. | Don... · PMF Show
- 1st-time AI founder grows from $0 to $1.3M ARR in 8 months. Here's exactly how he did it. | Jaspa... · PMF Show
- He took 3 years to make his 1st sale—then grew 1000x to $10M ARR 3 years later. | Alex Hoff, Foun... · PMF Show
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
Everything said about Salesforce, oldest first
Dec 19, 2024 neutral
Kausas: Salesforce owns only 24% of the CRM market
“How much of the CRM market does Salesforce have? Do you know? Host: No, I would say, like, what, 20%? I'm just throwing it over there. Marty Kausas: No, no, so you're, that's very close. 24%, I think, last time I checked. So, they are a three hundred billion d…”
Jun 30, 2025 negative
Salesforce decisions heavily relied on spreadsheet guesses ten years ago
“At least 10 years ago when I was there, the company was still largely run on hypotheses, you know, spreadsheets with some guesses in it. Like they couldn't, the vast majority of people that were making the important decisions couldn't really leverage all of th…”
Sep 10, 2025 bullish
Foundation models and integration layers will eventually dismantle the SaaS application monopoly
“And like, so at some point, we can break into this sort of monopoly of, like, application layer, and we can say, like, you don't really need to care about applications. All you need to care about is essentially foundation models and, like, Composio, and, like,…”
Sep 10, 2025 neutral
Soham Ganatra: Current AI agents do not learn from repeated API errors
“Agents don't learn. So if my agent is connecting to Salesforce and Salesforce has like 10,000 different parameters and like it keeps messing up those parameters every time, it will keep doing that even like the third time, the fifth time, the 30th time, right?”
Oct 9, 2025 neutral
Nov 3, 2025 bearish
Salesforce and ServiceNow will resist the MCP movement to protect UI engagement
“We don't just depend on Salesforce's MCP or ServiceNow's MCP. Which, by the way, they won't be very good at. I can tell you that because they don't want to be a data-only company. These large incumbents, they don't want to be a data-only company. They would ra…”
Apr 6, 2026 neutral
Apr 6, 2026 bearish
Kahlow: Salesforce is fundamentally broken because it keeps humans in the loop
“So everything that Salesforce and all of the legacy SaaS providers are doing are building systems around a human. And I think that's what's fundamentally broken is that we actually don't need the humans in the loop anymore.”
Apr 6, 2026 negative
Kahlow: Routing B2B signals into Salesforce instead of native platforms causes churn
“I had a deep belief that the Sixth Sense signals into Salesforce, we would be dead, right? We had to get people into the Sixth Sense platform using the Sixth Sense platform and using that as a system of record and a place that they go every day, which was real…”
Apr 9, 2026 bearish
Kuruvilla: Next-gen commerce platforms cannot be incremental improvements on Shopify
“And it's not going to be an incremental improvement of Shopify's template, you know, like e-commerce architecture or Salesforce e-commerce platform. It is something you ought to go back and build from the ground up where you have a brain, it understands everyt…”