Friedberg appeared on a Salesforce earnings call to discuss building a CRM tool over a weekend using AI coding.
“ Salesforce's bottom line is directly benefiting from AI, as the company recorded a $2.6 billion gain from its 3-year-old investment in Anthropic. That figure could go up, as Anthropic is marching toward a highly anticipated initial public offering. Benioff's overarching message to investors has been centered around the scale and power of his company's software, which Salesforce says is used by more than 150,000 corporate customers, and the inconceivability that clients would rip it out and decide to use AI to build their own services for customer relationship management and other critical functions. On this week's earnings call, Benioff brought on David Friedberg, the CEO of biotech startup Ohalo, who confessed to vibe-coding a CRM tool in a weekend. ”
Friedberg says his company will continue using Salesforce products rather than building custom alternatives with AI coding tools.
“We're already on Slack. We're not going to go vibe-code Slack. We're not going to vibe-code CRM.”