Behind the founder: Marc Benioff

I wanna zoom back to the beginning of Salesforce. One of the most legendary launch events in startup history. Just looking back at that, any lessons from what you did right to get people to pay attention. I'm throwing everything against the wall and looking at what's gonna stick. I am looking to try to find the winning tactic and turn it into a winning strategy. Your stock is at an all-time high. I'm curious just what you believe has most contributed to you being able to stay on top and continue. I actually never look at the stock. I find the stock to be very distracting. The stock isn't the goal. That's not why we're doing this. AI is the defining technology of our lifetime and probably any lifetime. When was kinda the moment for you where you started to realize this? I keep having these kind of existential freak out moments about AI. This is really moving fast. As a founder, you're just like, God damn, I just got used to AI and everyone wanting to work on AI in my company, now we gotta freaking figure out an agents. No no no no no, that's a mistake. You want the mindset of Oh, the next thing is coming, I can't wait for the next thing.

Today my guest is Mark Benioff. He's co founder and s of Salesforce. which is the second largest B2B SaaS company in the world, worth around$350 billion at the time of this recording. Making thirty five billion a year in revenue. And twenty five years later, it's still growing like crazy.

and dominating the market. In our conversation, we talk about leadership. AI Domain names. Beginner's mind.

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