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Benioff: Microsoft's Partnership With OpenAI Will Turn Into Direct Competition
“Microsoft is a company that wants to own it all, control it all. If they see a hot company or a hot startup, they ask themselves, hey, why is that not in our world? And in the case of they, usually they like To either try to feign an acquisition and then based…”
Benioff: Microsoft Used 'Dark' and 'Horrible' Tactics to Attack Slack
“You can see the horrible things that Microsoft did to Slack before we bought it. And yeah, that was pretty bad and they were running their playbook and did a lot of dark stuff. And it's all got in a written up in an EU complaint, but Slack made before we bough…”
Benioff: Major Japanese Firm Cutting Headcount 5% Annually for AI Agents
“Meeting with one of their C-level officers, and they have a goal to reduce the number of employees they have by five percent every year and replace them with agents.”
Benioff: Current CEOs Are the Last Generation With Only Human Employees
“I'm the last generation of CEOs to say, maybe you are too, that we only had human employees.”
Benioff: Salesforce Will Demonstrate AI Agents Integrating Into Physical Robots
“And that fourth layer is going to be the robotic layer, but it needs the other three layers to operate because the agents are going to get manifested into these robots. So that will be a keep next step. And we'll see that by dream force. I'm sure.”
Benioff: Most Enterprise Generative AI Deployments Have Failed Over Four Years
“For the vast majority of companies who have been playing around with these models and tools over the last, call it three years or four years of generative AI, they've mostly failed. You don't have that many great stories of how AI has transformed these compani…”
Benioff: Establishing a Standalone Enterprise AI Budget Is a Mistake
“I think that where there was an AI budget, that was a mistake. And that where it should be is like, you should be holding, at least this is what I do. I should be holding our service team accountable. Our sales team should be held accountable for that. And tha…”
Benioff: About 5,000 companies are implementing Agentforce
“There's about 5000 companies who are implementing AgentForce”
Benioff: Contact Center AI Transformation Will Be Incremental, Not Immediate
“It's that old phrase, people overestimate what you're going to do in a year and underestimate what you're going to do in a decade. And that is where we are with this as well, which is that, yes, we can say this is what's going to happen to the contact center, …”
Benioff Uses an AI Agent to Author Salesforce's Strategy Documents
“And now for almost three years, when I write a V-to-mom, one, I always have a Salesforce executive with me. And two, I now have an agent with me as well.”
Benioff: Enterprise AI Requires a Unified Data Layer Connecting All Stores
“Whether it's Databricks or Snowflake, whether it's Shopify, whether it's BigQuery, whether it's All S three, all the places where you're storing data through your company, all of that needs to be one consistent data layer for that agent to be able to really be…”
Benioff: Meaningful Enterprise Brands Trade Only Once, Forcing Decisive M&A
“There's only certain brands that really are meaningful in our industry. And that's one. And look, it's going to trade once. So you have to decide, is this going to be part of your solution?”
Benioff Accelerated Slack by Giving Quota Credit to Entire Sales Force
“We changed our distribution model for Slack last year. Nobody really saw that, which is that we allow all of our sales force to sell it, get quota credit for it, to basically made a peer product with the rest of our products. And it was A huge supercharge for …”
Benioff: Salesforce Completed Over 500,000 Support Interactions Using AI Agents
“Salesforce has helped at salesforce.com. We have 9000 support agents. We've already done more than a half a million Of these interactions with customers and agents.”
Benioff: Data Cloud is Salesforce's fastest-growing product ever
“Don't underestimate data cloud. It's been our fastest growing product ever.”
Benioff: Salesforce Guided to Around $40.9 Billion for the Year
“I think we did give guidance at about 40.9 billion for this year.”
Benioff: Salesforce Vision Integrates Slack, Tableau, and CRM Without Barriers
“And my vision is if you're in Slack, you are in Tableau and you are in Salesforce.”
Benioff: Salesforce is Japan's second-largest software company
“We're the second largest software company in Japan.”