@aaditsh: The entire AI startup world is obsessing over "0 to $100M ARR." Salesforce quietly did 0 to $800M in...
The entire AI startup world is obsessing over "0 to $100M ARR." Salesforce quietly did 0 to $800M in 15 months with Agentforce. 169% YoY growth. 29,000 deals. The difference is distribution. A startup needs to convince you their product exists, build trust, run a pilot, then close. Salesforce is already inside your stack. They're turning on AI agents in a platform you already pay for and already log into. Over 60% of Agentforce bookings came from existing customers expanding. They didn't need a sales cycle. They needed a feature toggle. That's the part the startup discourse misses. The hardest thing in enterprise AI isn't building the agent. It's getting it inside the workflow where the data and the decisions already live. Salesforce has 60 trillion records sitting in their ecosystem. The distribution is pre-built. The trust is pre-built. The data is already there. $800M ARR and the product is 15 months old. Not because it's the best agent framework. Because it's the one already on your customer's desktop at 9am Monday.