Salesforce
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4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Sep 5, 2018 by David Rusenko · said 21 times in 13 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
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- How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator
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2024 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2019 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2018 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Salesforce, oldest first
Sep 5, 2018
Rusenko: Direct Sales Requires Charging At Least $200-$300 Per Month
“If you're going to have a sales force, you're probably going to charge people at least Two, 300 dollars a month to be able to afford the Salesforce, and if you aren't gonna have a Salesforce, then you should probably charge 25 dollars a month or less.”
Feb 8, 2024 bearish
Tan: AI Dev Tools Suffer Churn as Incumbents Add LLM Features
“A bunch of us are funding dev tools companies that sell to AI companies and they're selling tooling, but then they might, you know, they might sell enterprise contract to someone who also upstream has a fortune 100 that said that they'd pay a 100,000 dollars a…”
Jul 25, 2024 positive
Blomfield: Startups should pitch direct founder access rather than fake company size
“What you should do instead is play to your strengths as a startup. Say to your customers, you can have the phone number of the founders and we're on call, 24 seven to come and fix your problems. You're certainly not going to get that from Salesforce or Oracle …”
Sep 16, 2025 positive