*By Jacqueline Corba*
Salesforce has saved a seat at its executive meetings for Einstein, an artificial intelligence-powered robot developed by the cloud computing company.
"The fact that we are using our own products to really drive our forecasting, it's pretty amazing," said Bob Stutz, CEO of Salesforce's Marketing Cloud. "It is really great to have that tool that you can use every single day to run your business."
Salesforce's chief executive, Marc Benioff, has been an outspoken proponent of the company's use of A.I., and said that Einstein has [been at every weekly senior staff meeting](http://fortune.com/2018/01/25/salesforce-benioff-einstein-davos-ai/) for the last year.
Stutz said Einstein pulls his weight on a team that has grown its quarterly revenue by 41 percent year over year.
"We are on an incredible tear right now," Stutz said in an interview with Cheddar. "It's really helping customers connect with their consumers across sales, marketing, service ー it's a real growth driver for us nowadays."
For the full interview, [click here](https://cheddar.com/videos/inside-salesforce-marketing-cloud-growth).
Music mogul Wyclef Jean wants to be the first rapper to innovate a hip-hop guitar. Jean looks to Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine as music innovators, and hopes to mirror their technical success in the industry.
Music mogul Wyclef Jean wants to be the first rapper to innovate a hip-hop guitar. Jean looks to Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine as music innovators, and hopes to mirror their technical success in the industry. Jean also tells Cheddar cannabis is the health-aide of the future.
Snapchat will not remove a filter that promotes InfoWars and the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, the company told Cheddar on Wednesday. A Snap spokesperson told Cheddar that the lens Jones promoted on Twitter wasn’t created by InfoWars or Snap, but rather a third party.
Snap may have beat revenue expectations for the second quarter, but BTIG media and tech analyst Rich Greenfield says the Snapchat maker's performance is well below where many investors thought it would be when the company went public.
MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe told Cheddar on Wednesday that he expects to turn a profit in six to nine months, despite the fact that the company is losing tens of millions of dollars each month as it struggles to find a sustainable business model.
Gene Munster, managing partner at Loup Ventures and a long-time Tesla bull, says there's a one in three chance Musk can take Tesla private. A Tesla-leveraged buyout, Munster adds, is very achievable.
The e-commerce site Etsy is spending strategically on "performance marketing" to offer consumers a stronger connection with the site's 2 million creative sellers, says CFO Rachel Glaser.
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Snap beat analyst expectations for revenue in the second quarter, earning $262 million. But the company's Snapchat app lost 3 million users, its first quarterly decline. The company also reported a $250 million investment from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a billionaire tech investor.
Galileo Russell, Founder of HyperChange TV and a bull investor on Tesla stock, believes Musk's motion to take Tesla private at $420 was a long time coming if one were to follow signs of Musk's discontent with public investors. Russell's reaction is full of excitement, but hopes he will not be forced to sell shares because he would alt to hold.
