Marc BenioffChair, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Salesforce, Inc. (CRM)
10 recorded appearances
Guest-hosted the show: dismissed the AI-kills-SaaS panic as "not my first SaaSpocalypse," argued which SaaS categories survive versus die, and discussed doing business in China after the Trump-Xi summit. Also disclosed Salesforce is on track to spend roughly $300M on Anthropic tokens this year, mostly for coding.
From the Slackbot launch event: said AI is not ready to replace software engineers and that Salesforce's roughly 15,000 engineers are "hugely augmented" rather than displaced, while pitching agents working alongside humans inside Slack.
On-stage conversation at Davos with White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks about AI policy, trust and enterprise deployment.
Davos-week interview on AI and the market themes he thinks investors are misreading.
Short Davos clip in which he sets the upside of AI against its risks.
On-stage conversation with Alphabet's CEO about model progress and the Google-Salesforce relationship in the agent era.
Main-stage keynote making the "Agentic Enterprise" the company's organizing pitch: humans and AI agents working together on top of trusted data and CRM.
Dreamforce 2025 session with Anthropic's CEO on where AI capability is heading and the governance required for responsible enterprise deployment. (Recorded at Dreamforce 2025; posted May 2026.)
Pushed back on the view that AI erodes application software, arguing agents expand rather than shrink the seat-and-data business.
Predicted that within a year about half of customer conversations would be handled by AI agents, and described Salesforce as the testing ground for its own agentic support, sales and marketing.