David Schmaier | Value Beyond Investment
About David Schmaier
David Schmaier, President and Chief Strategy Officer at Salesforce, has been a prominent voice on the company's AI strategy, particularly around its Agentforce platform. At Dreamforce 2024, he described Agentforce as a major focus, stating that Salesforce is "going all in on humans and AI agents working together to help customers." He noted that the platform allows users to turn on pre-built AI agents that can automate tasks, and that over 10,000 companies activated it in a sandbox environment within three days of its launch. In a 2025 podcast, Schmaier said Salesforce had just delivered its first $10 billion-plus revenue quarter and was on a $40 billion run rate. He has also emphasized the importance of data, calling the company's Data Cloud its fastest-growing product ever)Skip Schmaier has discussed the broader implications of AI, stating in a 2024 interview at Davos that he believes "this is bigger than the internet" and that in 12 months, "every single piece of software will add generative AI." He has argued that AI will not replace jobs but will make people more productive, and that it will create new roles, such as prompt engineers. Schmaier has also highlighted Salesforce's focus on trust and safety, describing the company's "Einstein Trust Layer" as a system that screens out biased or harmful AI outputs. He has characterized the current period as a "global AI race" and said that the stakes are "super high."