*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).
The Facebook CEO's hearings on Capitol Hill will likely dominate headlines for days. If those stories focus more on the new initiatives that the social network has recently rolled out, rather than the data scandal itself, "that would be a big win," says Aaron Pressman, Senior Technology Reporter at Fortune Magazine.
Washington won't easily forgive Facebook for sending a "low-level" deputy to testify when Congress first wanted answers about Russia's role in the 2016 election. And legislators are likely to take out their frustration on the CEO when he appears before them next week, says Ken Gude, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress.
If the stock had surged too high, "it would be hard to grow into that valuation over time," says Pär-Jörgen Pärson, partner at European venture capital firm Northzone, a Spotify investor since 2008.
West Virginia is the first state to test out voting via blockchain, collaborating with venture capitalist Bradley Tusk. "[People] want to vote the same way that they order something from Amazon," says Mac Warner, WV's Secretary of State. The experiment has rolled out for deployed military voters in some counties, with plans to deploy it across the state for the midterm elections in November.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook's handling of user data was a "huge mistake" and that the company failed to take "a broad enough view of what our responsibility was" to its more than 2 billion users.
Stringer wants Facebook to bring in more independent directors and experts on data protection to provide more oversight at the company. As the comptroller, Stringer manages the city's public pension funds, which have close to $1 billion invested in Facebook.
Both companies decided to bypass banks and let anyone participate in the listing process, says Stacey Cunningham, COO at the New York Stock Exchange. The music streaming company started trading on the market Tuesday, with shares opening at $165.90 a pop.
There are "some unique factors" that went into Spotify's decision to choose a direct listing, and not all companies will have the same needs, says Stacey Cunningham, COO at the New York Stock Exchange. Spotify started trading on the market Tuesday, with shares opening at more than $165 a pop.
Choosing a direct listing over an IPO has left a lot of room for volatility when the stock starts trading tomorrow, says Maureen Farrell, reporter at the Wall Street Journal. The music streaming company goes public Tuesday, and investors have little guidance on the debut price or even what kind of volume we'll see on day one.
Female gamers, like Janet Rose, are often told that they are mere distractions in the male-dominated industry. They are also frequently exposed to sexual harassment online. Rose, who streams on Twitch as "xChocobar," shares her experience.
