Salesforce plans to hire 2,000 people to sell its AI products

Cloud software giant Salesforce is looking to hire thousands of new salespeople to sell its AI tools to customers.

According to information, the company plans to hire 2,000 new sales representatives CNBCReferring to CEO Marc Benioff’s remarks at a company event on Tuesday. That doubles down on the hiring plans Benioff shared with Bloomberg last month. Salesforce has already received 9,000 referrals for those 2,000 positions, Benioff said.

This volume increase comes just months before the company plans to release the second generation of its AI agent software in February.

Benioff said recently TechCrunch’s Equity podcast he expects Salesforce to have over one billion agents in the next 12 months. As for generative AI in general, Benioff added, “I’ve never been more excited about anything at Salesforce, maybe in my career.”