Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, discusses customer scale across Salesforce's core platform and Slack.
Assertion Contradicted
Salesforce Research invented AI prompt engineering, claims Marc Benioff
“We invented prompt engineering, the first prompt right here at Salesforce Research, commercialized by others, of course.”
Assertion Contradicted
Benioff claims Salesforce sold cybersecurity company Wiz to Google
“You know, we just sold a company to Google, which is Wiz, the security company.”
Insight
AI cannot replace human sales reps because buyers crave human connection
“AI doesn't have a soul. It's not that human connectivity. It's not, you know, at our depth, AI is not born. It's, you know, AI is made. So, you know, we, there's a humanity that still needs to be nurtured and governed and developed and grown. People want to bu…”
Disclosure
Salesforce Ventures' $5 billion fund is generating an estimated 33% IRR
“It's a five billion dollar fund. It's I think doing a 33% IRR. I don't know exactly the numbers, probably one of the highest performing funds in the world.”
Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2030
Salesforce projects reaching $60 billion in annual revenue by fiscal 2030
“This year we're going to do about 43.1 billion in revenue, and we just gave guidance yesterday that we expect to be able to do sixty billion dollars by Fiscal year, 30.”
Disclosure
Salesforce recently hired up to 5,000 salespeople to reach 20,000 total
“I also just hired somewhere between three and 5000 more salespeople. Ok, I'm growing my salesforce, it'll be more than, you know, almost, it's I think I'm going to try to get to 20,000 account executives this year.”