The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Marc Benioff earns The Visionary designation by refusing to discuss technology in isolation. He frames the AI wave through grand historical arcs, likening it to the gold rush, mobile, and cloud, and describing humanity as a chrysalis birthing new intelligence.
“Is that I'm a lead from the front person, you know that, so I'm not afraid to. Get on an all hands call for two hours, and it was tough, because you're having to explain the unexplainable. And yes, exactly what you said. We don't have lifetime employment. And it's sad because we do feel like these are family members.”
“I mean, next, I can say that this year we just finished at 31.4 billion, and next year we're going to do about 35 billion. And, you know, the economy is not where it was.”
“I had a really great conversation last week with Ray Dalios, been a mentor of mine, and he was telling me, Mark, the COSIO model is a great model. You need to execute. I'm like, Ray, I just did that twice. I think right now I can't jump completely back to that. I do think it is a great model.”
“Well, that's for next year. We're going to do 27. We really were going to be about 22, which is where we have been. And then we really kind of have, we delivered four additional points for this year. We're doing four and a half additional points for next year.”
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