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Anurag Rana

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262 total appearances

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Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Nvidia’s Upbeat Sales Forecast Shows AI Boom Remains Strong

The first is, given so much spend going into AI, the non-AI spending is the one that's under pressure.

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Nvidia’s Upbeat Sales Forecast Shows AI Boom Remains Strong

And that is hurting companies like Salesforce, Workday, Accenture, and so forth, because companies have, or the clients don't have that much money to spend in terms of how they're allocating AI spending versus non-AI.

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Nvidia’s Upbeat Sales Forecast Shows AI Boom Remains Strong

The second big piece right now is the market's extremely worried about software companies getting disrupted by all the model providers and all the AI native companies.

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Nvidia’s Upbeat Sales Forecast Shows AI Boom Remains Strong

Salesforce are getting hit by two different ways.

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Nvidia’s Upbeat Sales Forecast Shows AI Boom Remains Strong

But the results, frankly, I wouldn't say they were disappointing.

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Nvidia’s Upbeat Sales Forecast Shows AI Boom Remains Strong

I would say they were stable in line in terms of what they were saying they're going to do.

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Nvidia’s Upbeat Sales Forecast Shows AI Boom Remains Strong

From our side, it is just going to take some time to sort out.

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Nvidia’s Upbeat Sales Forecast Shows AI Boom Remains Strong

So the question is the answer to the, if is it warranted?

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Nvidia’s Upbeat Sales Forecast Shows AI Boom Remains Strong

I mean, I think it's going to take some time to play out because if the models get really smart, then why do you need a manufactured software like this?

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Nvidia’s Upbeat Sales Forecast Shows AI Boom Remains Strong

That software can do a lot of what you need to do in terms of managing your sales force or customer service.

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Nvidia’s Upbeat Sales Forecast Shows AI Boom Remains Strong

Now, the question is, in our view, when a company like Salesforce is there, there are a handful of their products that they have that they sell into the enterprise, whether it's customer service cloud or sales automation cloud.

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Nvidia’s Upbeat Sales Forecast Shows AI Boom Remains Strong

Those are the ones I think they have a little bit better position of not being disrupted.

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Nvidia’s Upbeat Sales Forecast Shows AI Boom Remains Strong

but they have other visualization tools or some other smaller products that may not be the ones where anybody would pay for it.

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Nvidia’s Upbeat Sales Forecast Shows AI Boom Remains Strong

So I think there is a lot that needs to be done from Salesforce in terms of adding more AI capabilities to its core product and not change the narrative around it.

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Nvidia’s Upbeat Sales Forecast Shows AI Boom Remains Strong

You know, I think that's the most important thing is we are very early in the inning.

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Nvidia’s Upbeat Sales Forecast Shows AI Boom Remains Strong

But at the same time, you know, when people are worried, they'll entirely sell the entire sector.

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Nvidia’s Upbeat Sales Forecast Shows AI Boom Remains Strong

We have seen that numerous times.

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Nvidia’s Upbeat Sales Forecast Shows AI Boom Remains Strong

So when we looked at this thing, I mean, the entire team worked on creating a framework of, you know, when we see a company, does it have high market share?

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Nvidia’s Upbeat Sales Forecast Shows AI Boom Remains Strong

Does it sell to very large companies versus smaller companies?

Bloomberg Tech
Instant Reaction: Nvidia’s Upbeat Sales Forecast Shows AI Boom Remains Strong

Is it a platform?