An interview with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on his background and the founding of Salesforce, his vision for AI, Agentforce, data and disruption, and more
a limitless digital workforce. Welcome to Agentforce, now available for all Salesforce customers. Going beyond Copilot, Agentforce combines powerful models with secure, intelligent data [video] Justin Cormack / @justincormack : Then I got so freaked out that I went into Larry Ellison's office and I said, “Listen, think I need to leave the company because there's this huge thing happening in the world and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do about it, but I know it's something” https://stratechery.com/... Karma / @0xkarmatic : Honestly, this is a good explanation from @Benioff . This is “Founder Mode”. Most of the CEO's are still doing corporate speak and treating LLMs as an oracle which can solve any problem but this was an exception. Marc Benioff / @benioff : Welcome to a new era of ‘agent-first’ companies an era of AI abundance—powered by AI and driven by core values. What if our workforces had not limits? Agentforce is empowering businesses to redefine productivity and customer relationships, paving the way for a new AI-abundant LinkedIn: Brendan Keeler : I haven't always been a fan of the Stratechery interview format, but they've grown on me over time, to the point that they're often the most valuable of the week. …
We've all had that ChatGPT moment where we type in the query and we get the result and it's super-search and we're like, “Oh my gosh, this is amazing. This is magic. This is awesome. How is this possible?” And our first experience with an LLM, we're all remembering that. That's
LLMs are just a component of intelligence. They're just an ingredient. Like if we're making a cake and we need sugar or salt, it's just a component. But an LLM by itself is just an input-output search engine. It has an amalgamated data set with an algorithm that are combined and
Imagine an agentic layer across your enterprise that empowers with trust and precision—a limitless digital workforce. Welcome to Agentforce, now available for all Salesforce customers. Going beyond Copilot, Agentforce combines powerful models with secure, intelligent data [video]
Then I got so freaked out that I went into Larry Ellison's office and I said, “Listen, think I need to leave the company because there's this huge thing happening in the world and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do about it, but I know it's something” https://stratechery.com/..…
Honestly, this is a good explanation from @Benioff . This is “Founder Mode”. Most of the CEO's are still doing corporate speak and treating LLMs as an oracle which can solve any problem but this was an exception.
Welcome to a new era of ‘agent-first’ companies an era of AI abundance—powered by AI and driven by core values. What if our workforces had not limits? Agentforce is empowering businesses to redefine productivity and customer relationships, paving the way for a new AI-abundant