*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).
In recent years, Vimeo has been pushing to transform itself into an end-to-end platform for video creators, adding post-production tools, storage capabilities, and live streaming features. Creators can publish their content on any other platform through Vimeo, including on competitors like YouTube. "That provides a real advantage for us in that we can be Switzerland in that publishing landscape," CEO Joey Levin tells Cheddar's Alex Heath at the Sun Valley conference.
IAC, which owns Match, Tinder, and OkCupid, recently added Hinge to its portfolio because "we like competing with ourselves," says CEO Joey Levin. "Tinder was created inside of Match to disrupt Match." Levin spoke with Cheddar's Alex Heath at the Allen & Co. Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho.
The wireless company will hold a stake in Magic Leap, which released a demo of its mixed-reality headset Wednesday afternoon. “For AT&T, it makes a lot of sense to invest in this area,” says Ed Baig, personal tech columnist at USA TODAY. “It’ll be curious to see if AT&T subsidizes the price of this headset” like it does with smartphones.
Even when Netflix was a DVD rental company, it tried to customize choices for its customers, says Gibson Biddle, former VP product at the streaming giant. That strategy still drives many of the company's decisions today, including the kind of content it spends money on.
According to a New York Times report, Zelle -- institutional banks' answer to Venmo -- has been extremely vulnerable to hacks and fraud. The company that created the app, Early Warning Services, is now working on making Zelle harder to exploit, says Ravi Loganathan, the company's head of business intelligence.
Cheddar’s Alex Heath caught up with industry heavyweights at the 2018 Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley, Idaho — an event commonly referred to "summer camp for billionaires." The hot merger landscape in the media industry was front-and-center, with Comcast and Disney fighting over the future of Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox empire.
The streaming service will use the fresh capital for "a bigger marketing push," says CEO Andrew McCollum. The company also launched on Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV on Tuesday in an attempt to bring the service in front of more users.
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The partnership benefits both companies as the scooter wars begin to heat up. Lime likely chose Uber over other ride-hailing companies because "Uber's got a much deeper geographic penetration, particularly internationally," says Dan Primack, business editor at Axios.
The company, in partnership with Servco Pacific, launched the app Hui on Tuesday in Honolulu, Hawaii, with plans to open in other locations internationally. Hui enables users to choose from a fleet of Toyota and Lexus cars to rent out by the hour or for the day.
