Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce did not miss a beat: “We’re all following you, bro.” Lol
Benioff heads one of the most successful enterprise software companies. Dominating the market over the past 20 years and setting the pace for the industry.
Now he’s at the mercy of agentic AI roadmap led by Nvidia.
All enterprise software companies are fighting to justify their existence.
For two decades, companies built massive fortunes charging twenty dollars a month per seat. Then modern AI models learned to write code, draft emails, and handle customer queries directly. Investors started pricing in a crash for traditional subscription software.
Salesforce is navigating slowing revenue growth and answering a hard question: why would customers pay for human-centric business software when autonomous code can do the work?
Their survival strategy is a total pivot to an agentic model.
Instead of just selling static databases where staff log calls, Salesforce wants to sell autonomous digital workers.
These agents handle service complaints, route sales leads, and complete back-office tasks on their own.
Software companies are scrambling to build autonomous tools fast enough to prove they still matter, but they are all building on Nvidia’s foundation.
While Salesforce shares (Ticker: CRM) have rallied over 30% in the past month, shares are still lower than they were at the beginning of the year.
The worst might be over for software companies but they are hardly out of woods.
Like it or not, Nvidia is the market leader and AI infrastructure will continue to be the driving force for AI investment growth in the foreseeable future.
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