Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff dismisses concerns of a “SaaS-pocalypse”, saying companies like Anthropic use “a lot of SaaS because it just got better with agents”
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Slack messages: some staffers complained about Marc Benioff making jokes about ICE at a Salesforce event, including about ICE surveilling employee travel
- Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff made jokes about ICE during an employee event, internal messages show. — Some employees took to Slack to express anger and disappointment.
Slack messages: some staffers complained about Marc Benioff making jokes about ICE at a Salesforce event, including about ICE surveilling employee travel
- Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff made jokes about ICE during an employee event, internal messages show. — Some employees took to Slack to express anger and disappointment.
Salesforce's Tableau President & CEO Ryan Aytay leaves after 19 years at the company, just two months after Slack CEO Denise Dresser left to become OpenAI's CRO
The chief of Salesforce Inc.'s data visualization unit, Tableau, has left the company, raising some concerns on Wall Street about executive churn at the software maker.
As tech CEOs stay silent after two fatal shootings, 450+ workers at Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and others urge CEOs to cancel any ICE contracts and speak out
across NVIDIA, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Salesforce, Adobe, PayPal, YouTube, Slack, Meta—we are now hundreds strong.Hemant Taneja /@htaneja:This is not politics as usual. As investors, innovators, le...
Email: Ron Conway, a close friend of Marc Benioff for 25+ years, stepped down from the Salesforce Foundation board, citing Benioff's comments supporting Trump
Benioff also owns TIME magazine, which named Trump Person of the Year in 2024. — #Salesforce #Dreamforce $CRM — www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u... Jennifer Elias / @jennelias : “It saddens me immense...
Marc Benioff says President Trump is “doing a great job” and believes National Guard troops should be deployed to San Francisco to help reduce crime in the city
Mr. Benioff, the Salesforce C.E.O. and owner of Time magazine, once supported Hillary Clinton and a business tax for homeless services.
A look at Marc Benioff pursuing productivity gains through AI at Salesforce, which has had multiple layoffs while offering lower-than-expected sales projections
Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post :
Marc Benioff says Salesforce has cut its support staff from 9,000 to ~5,000 in the past year after deploying AI agents to handle a growing share of its work
but remains deeply skeptical of AGI, which he likens to hypnosis Maria Garcia / Implicator.ai : Salesforce's AI agents slice support workforce by ~45%—weeks after Benioff said humans were essential Cr...
Marc Benioff says “AI is doing 30% to 50% of the work at Salesforce”, like software engineering and customer service, and its AI product has hit ~93% accuracy
This ratio sounds hard to fathom but if true I expect shareholders will push to see increased business results or layoffs as they have 30%-50% more employees than they need. Brutus / @itsillegaltobeme...