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Mar 2025
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Marc Benioff on Agentic AI and Salesforc...

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About this episode

Marc Benioff is the founder and CEO of the cloud-based software company Salesforce. Dylan Lewis caught up with Benioff to discuss:

- Why Salesforce doesn’t plan to hire any software engineers this year.

- Lessons learned from major acquisitions, like Slack and Tableau.

- Where AI goes next.


Companies discussed: CRM, MSFT, LEN, DIS


Host: Dylan Lewis

Guest: Marc Benioff

Producer: Mary Long

Engineer: Rick Engdahl, Heather Horton

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