Salesforce co-founder Parker Harris wants to more tightly integrate Slack after the $27 billion acquisition, which closed in 2021.
Barbara Corcoran shares the No. 1 trait her best employees have: ‘They drove me crazy, but I admired my superstars so much' Questions swirled about whether Salesforce should spend billions of dollars to assemble its own general-purpose large language model for spitting out text in response to a few words of human input, Harris said. But the company started seeing clients use multiple LLMs.
"He was a very abstract thinker," Yazdani said about Harris, in an interview with CNBC."He had clarity around capability of what's possible." "We are going to probably work here for six months to a year, and we're going to just really enjoy it," he told his father, who was behind the camera. Salesforce played the clip for employees this week during a celebration.
"I don't understand that area," Harris told a group of journalists, regarding AI."I understand we have to solve it. I have hired some people in that area that do understand it."At the time, social was the big buzzword. Facebook was still private but taking off. Salesforce wound up buying the big prize in the space, purchasing Slack in 2021 for $27.1 billion, by far the company's priciest deal.
Harris saw the advantage that startups gained by outsourcing data center needs to Amazon Web Services. And he knew Salesforce had failed to build a viable platform for easily developing apps while partnering with VMware. Harris concluded that not pushing Salesforce to public cloud services like AWS would be an existential threat.