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Bret Taylor’s AI startup Sierra raises funding at $4.5 billion valuation

Artificial intelligence startup Sierra, co-founded by ex-Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor, is more than quadrupling its valuation to $4.5 billion in a fresh funding round. The San Francisco-based company, which was valued at $1 billion in January, raised $175 million in a funding round led by Greenoaks Capital. The Information reported earlier this month that Sierra was in the midst of raising…

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Proclaims: 'The World is Shifting Towards the Indian Era'

At the annual Dreamforce event in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff declared that the world is entering an “Indian era,” highlighting India's growing global significance. He noted, “There is no denying that India is about to enter a truly remarkable period. It’s a really exciting opportunity, as you can see.”

Benioff expressed strong confidence in Salesforce's expansion in India, where the company has over 11,000 employees. He emphasized the critical role of Indian operations in engineering and market engagement, pointing to major clients like the Bajaj Group. He praised Arundhati Bhattacharya, former SBI Chairperson and now head of Salesforce India, for her leadership in driving this growth. While Benioff did not disclose specific workforce expansion plans, he underscored India’s vital importance in Salesforce’s future strategy.

Additionally, Salesforce introduced its partner network, which includes industry giants like AWS, Google, IBM, and Workday, as well as "Agentforce," an autonomous AI tool aimed at optimizing business processes. He highlighted a collaboration with NVIDIA to provide advanced autonomous AI agents for enterprise applications.

Benioff predicted that these innovations would transform sales, marketing, and commerce, describing them as a significant leap beyond traditional chatbots. Addressing concerns about potential job losses due to AI, he reassured that there are pathways for workforce transition, noting that some companies have already successfully navigated this change.

To further strengthen its presence in India, Salesforce announced the appointment of Rahul Dravid, the celebrated Indian cricket star, as its first brand ambassador. Dravid will help Indian businesses leverage the Salesforce CRM platform to foster growth, aligning with the “Growing With India” campaign that promotes Salesforce’s comprehensive, user-friendly CRM solutions designed to elevate Indian enterprises.

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Billionaire Marc Benioff is buying up land in Hawaii. And no one knows why : NPR

Billionaire Marc Benioff is buying up land in Hawaii. And no one knows why : NPR https://www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1232564250/billionaire-benioff-buys-hawaii-land-salesforce

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The secret to successful hiring ~ @Benioff

The secret to successful hiring is this:

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Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change (Book Review)

As a fellow alumni of the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Young Global Leaders (YGL) community alongside Marc Benioff, I have had the privilege of witnessing his journey and evolving philosophy first-hand. The release of Marc’s book, “Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change,” has been a cause for excitement and anticipation in my circles. After a close reading, I am…

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“The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.

Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce

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Cramer sees a 'good chance' Salesforce's Benioff will soon announce succession plans

Jim Cramer suggested Saturday that plans for a leadership change at Club holding Salesforce (CRM) — helmed by co-founder Marc Benioff for more than two decades — may be disclosed in the near future. “There will be a good chance that Marc will [soon] announce a successor or Marc will announce that he will [only] be chairman,” Jim said Saturday during the Club’s first-ever “Annual Meeting” in New…

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Stay (2005) Review

When Sam Foster a psychiatrist takes over the case of Henry Letham he must attempt to stop him from committing suicide while attempting to keep a grip on his own reality. ⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Untitled

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Henry ha deciso di suicidarsi alla vigilia del suo compleanno e il suo psichiatra cerca di fargli cambiare idea; l'analisi di Henry ha conseguenze sempre più inquietanti sulla vita di Sam.

Il film narra di come vengano vissute le relazioni intense andandosi ad incentrare sulla realtà, sull'amore, sulla morte, sul suicidio e sull'aldilà.

Stay - Nel labirinto della mente (2005), dir. Marc Forster

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Marc Benioff is in talks to sell media company Time to Antenna Group

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff attends the TIME100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York on April 26, 2023. Dimitrios Kambouris | Getty Images Greek media company the Antenna Group is in talks to acquire fellow media company Time from Salesforce co-founder Marc Benioff, according to people familiar with the matter. No deal is assured and the talks are still early, said the people, who asked…

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Marc Benioff, the founder, chairman, and CEO of Salesforce is not only a successful entrepreneur but also a renowned philanthropist. His company Salesforce, founded in March 1999, is one of the fastest-growing cloud companies and is the first cloud company to cross the mark of $ 5 Billion in revenue.

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Altman has had a career that any Silicon Valley exec would absolutely kill for, and he hasn’t accomplished a single worthwhile thing. He founded one failed company, ran a factory that bought predatory amounts of equity for virtually nothing from every Stanford dropout with an idea for software to replace something Mommy used to do, then founded a company to build a product that he himself believes could eventually destroy humanity. He managed to do such a bad job organizing that company that he nearly got it taken away from him by the guy who runs the Christian babies Q&A site and Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s wife before he was rescued by a nightmare blunt rotation of Microsoft, Marc Benioff’s Number One Boy, and Larry Fucking Summers. And the Quora guy even got to stick around! -Today in Tabs

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We strive always to have ~ @Benioff

We strive always to have

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