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Mary's spreadsheet

A Salesforce executive told a London roundtable of a firm still running on Mary's spreadsheet. AI agents can only inherit what somebody wrote down, and the jobs where the next Mary learns are going.

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Amer Altaf
Nov 10, 2026

On Thursday 15 October, at a press roundtable at ExCeL London, Simon Mulcahy, Salesforce‘s chief business officer, told a story about a spreadsheet. He told it as a conversation he had had: “I’m stil…

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