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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.”
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…”
Broshi: Generative AI leveled tech playing field against Salesforce and Zendesk
“In terms of technology, you had the exact same shot of succeeding as Salesforce or Zendesk, et cetera.”
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?”
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…”
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…”
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,…”
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…”
Kahlow: Salesforce acquired OneMind's closest competitor
“Salesforce just bought our closest competitor right now. So, you know, they see, obviously they're seeing the writing on the wall that this is the way the direction is going.”
Zach Lloyd: Salesforce founder and TIME owner Marc Benioff is my cousin
“My cousin is the owner of time. He's the Salesforce founder of Mark Benioff.”
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…”