If I were the CEO of Salesforce
“I'd rather spend billions of dollars acquiring the next generation of businesses than let Microsoft, Google, or some AI startup own them.”
Transcript
If I was the CEO of Salesforce, I tear the entire business down to its studs. Salesforce spent $28 billion buying Slack. And right now, Salesforce is in an AI arms race that threatens to make their entire business model completely obsolete. If I were the CEO of Salesforce,
here's exactly what I'd do. First, I'd launch the $100 million Slack agent games. Think Beast games, but for AI developers. I'd take over San Francisco during Dreamforce, bring in Nvidia, Anthropic, OpenAI, and I'd have thousands of developers competing in a winner take
all tournament to build AI agents that run entire departments. And I'd turn Dreamforce into the super bowl of enterprise AI. Second, I'd launch a campaign called Never Open Salesforce again. I'd bring in Alex Ramosi, Steven Bartlett, and Cody Sanchez. Give each of them
a real business and 30 days to run its entire sales operation through Slack. No dashboards and no manually updating customer records. Just AI agents doing the work. And oh yeah, you know I'm making that a YouTube series. And third, I'd make Slack the
default operating system for every startup. I'd partner with Y Combinator, Stripe Atlas, Atl assian, and Techstars. Every new company would get Slack, Salesforce CRM, and AI agents completely free for the first two years. I'd rather spend billions of dollars acquiring the next generation
of businesses than let Microsoft, Google, or some AI startup own them. And fourth, I completely change how Salesforce makes money. I'd launch Slack works. And instead of charging primarily for software seats, I'd change for completed work. An AI agent books a qualified meeting, pay for
that meeting, resolves a customer service ticket, pay for the resolution. Salesforce spent decades building software people had to open. And I spent the next five years turning Slack into the place where all of the work gets done. I'd want to turn Salesforce into an always-on
experience that you can only get access to through Slack. Every business, every industry, there's a larger opportunity hiding inside of it. Follow me for more tech and AI news and follow me for the next company I'd build.