So here’s a hilarious twist from Salesforce tha...
Executives really have to be careful what they say in podcasts. We have it again from Mark Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce. So a few days before Christmas, Mark was on a podcast with 20VC, and he said, we're not hiring more engineers this coming year because AI has given us such a tremendous productivity boost. We don't need to. We just get all the productivity boost we need. I wanted to see what would happen in the new year. I wanted to check the jobs. And you know what? There are more than 100 engineering-specific jobs open on Salesforce right now. You gotta say what's really there. This happened with the Klarna CEO, too, and everyone raked him over the coals for it. Rightly so. You can't say, we're not doing this hiring thing, and then your company does it. It doesn't work that way. I will also say, it is kind of funny, while we're talking about Salesforce, that Salesforce is hiring more than 2,000 salespeople to sell its agent-based sales. Like, hey, we're gonna have a sales agent that you can use to help you with selling, and oh, by the way, we're gonna sell those agents with human, human sellers. It's just funny. It's just funny. People like to talk a very big game about the efficiencies that they're gonna get with AI, but I always check under the covers, because at the end of the day, it is sometimes not the actual story. And in this case, it looks like Salesforce is actually hiring software engineers, despite what was said. So there you go. Check your stories.
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