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I don’t think so. These things come and go. Benioff is not on one side or the other. He is a salesman who takes his position based on where the wind blows from. When you direct a giant business you kind of need to be that way whether we like it or not. Or the business will be punished in a big way.
January 8, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Thanks, Melissa. 🙏
January 7, 2026 at 9:00 PM
better 2026 for #Salesforce and the ecosystem. Investor adjustment of expectations is also important. Salesforce will not be a stock of natural organic double-digit growth at this size and phase. We may see more revenue-focused acquisitions. Please do fire your comments and questions at me. *end* 🧵
January 7, 2026 at 1:23 PM
of the investors needs to be recovered. When I look at the product from an architectural standpoint, the hybrid approach is a good one: Mix of AI and deterministic actions. However, the ease of implementation is important. We will see how Agent script will evolve. So, in summary, I expect to see a
January 7, 2026 at 1:23 PM
I don’t expect a hockey stick adoption and steep increase in revenues from Agentforce, however the stock is very cheap at this point when you compare the multipliers to similar stocks. All Salesforce needs is a mediocre or slightly better traction to do very well in the stock market. The lost belief
January 7, 2026 at 1:23 PM
anticipation of financial stress in the markets, as well, which did not materialize. Clients can’t wait forever or they will be left behind. In the mean time, Salesforce started refining the product and supported the offering with acquisitions. We should see some returns on that investment in 2026.
January 7, 2026 at 1:23 PM
recover it from their clients. It is a transition period. I don’t think many question AI will take center stage, but nobody knows exactly how. Most clients had a wait and see year. I think many projects were postponed, budgets were kept at conservative levels. There was always a looming risk and
January 7, 2026 at 1:23 PM
I sold a few stocks I owned (not too many) in Nov 2024. I expected Salesforce to have a hard time in 2025. It looks like that prediction was correct. The stock price pretty much stalled since then. Last year was a hard time for many tech SaaS stocks. They spent the money on AI, but could not
January 7, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Yes
January 5, 2026 at 9:54 PM
sfdc is an old acronym that was abandoned. It is not data cloud. It used to be Salesforce Dot Com. In the mean time, Data Cloud was renamed to Data 360 (one of the many names recently). It may have even received a prepended Agentforce name I am not sure.
January 5, 2026 at 9:54 PM
The only acceptable coverage seems to be T-mobile locally, since upload below 1 Mbit is a shame. You can't upload high rez photo video with that, and forget about decent facetime and Zoom quality. I am looking at US mobile on the T-mobile network.
January 5, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Results are here (last night on my iPhone 16 pro inside the house, first number download, second number upload in Mbits):
AT&T 5G one bar (rarely two bars) max 13.1/0.5
Ubigi data (on T-mobile) LTE two to three bars max 64.7/3.3
Visible (Verizon brand and network) LTE two bars 41.2/0.4
January 5, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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January 3, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Hey LinkedIn, what I learned from changing my own garbage disposal and what this means for SaaS.
January 3, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Picture for the latter in progress. lol
January 3, 2026 at 2:46 AM
They did not charge me either. That part is good. Takes time.
January 2, 2026 at 11:14 PM
It took half a day. One thing that’s very different between Turkey and here: In Turkey, there are many tire patch shops, some of them don’t even sell tires. Here they are tire & wheel sales & install shops who also patch, but they don’t want to do it really. That is not where the money is.
January 2, 2026 at 10:57 PM