Another parallel that I see is “cloud”. Salesforce was one of the first (if not the first) real successful cloud companies. But it took a really long time (and

Another parallel that I see is “cloud”. Salesforce was one of the first (if not the first) real successful cloud companies. But it took a really long time (and it still is going on) for cloud-first to be the default in enterprises. And along the way, there was a ton of new technologies that were (re)invented: VMs and then containers etc at the infra level, new app architectures like AJAX (holy smokes was this amazing when it first came out), etc. Similarly I think we’re in for a wild ride on AI and figuring out its implications. There’s a ton of obvious use cases today but I’m really interested in the ones that aren’t obvious right now.