Marc Benioff on the AI boom, SaaSpocalypse, and future of Slack

22 Sep 2026 · 49 min

Episode Marc Benioff on the AI boom, SaaSpocalypse, and future of Slack

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and I discuss his framemogging at Dreamforce, the state of the SaaSpocalypse, and how Slack is more important than ever in the age of AI.

We also discuss the resurgence of San Francisco, his role in the recent acquisition of Hugging Face, the wealth being created by the IPOs of Anthropic and OpenAI, and what he thinks the industry can learn from the social media era.

Thanks to the show's premier sponsors: Granola, Atlassian, and Mercury.

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