technology -- can have dramatic business outcomes, and we're deeply committed
artificial intelligence and we're all -- and as I said, we're also deeply committed to the
ethical and humane use of that technology because we all realize that AI is developing a
lot faster and going a lot farther than any of us realized.
And Salesforce, as I believe, probably the premier provider of artificial intelligence
certainly of business applications and enterprise applications, we still feel a deep
responsibility to help in the guidance of that capability.
And I'll turn it over to Marc.
Mark J. Hawkins: Sure, thank you. Kirk, you are correct. Yes, this is a bigger since we
had talked prior and despite the FX headwind that we see that impacted us in the second
half obviously the raising for revenue or operating margin in our cash flow.
Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Richard Davis from Canaccord.
Richard Hugh Davis: Maybe as a broader question for Marc Benioff. Look, there are
thousands of companies out there as you and I both know, most of them hit a wall and
often times the stumbling block is a CEO who doesn't change with the company. So
Marc, this maybe this would be a better question over a beer or whatever, but you and I
have met a bunch of private companies, but it would be super helpful if you passed on
kind of 1 or 2 key things that you've done to scale as a CEO because you've seen it. It's
CEO hold on too tight, they don't do it, this, that or the other but that would be actually --
it's not a swansong question -- but I was just curious.
Marc R. Benioff: While it's a good question. And I'll tell you in the room here is Monica
Langley, and we are working on you've probably read the book, Behind the Cloud, and
we're working on a new book right now, which we're really excited about, and we just
wrote one of the key chapters that really answers your question and I still firmly believe
that you're an entrepreneur that really the key to kind of having durable success over
multiple decades, which is what Salesforce has now done, is really maintaining a
beginner's mind.
You probably heard me talk about this, but rarely does a morning go by where I don't
take some time for mindfulness myself and really say, OK, knowing everything that's
going on in the industry, in the world, in our company, with everything that's happening,
what do I want right now? To really kind of start fresh, completely clear my mind. To
really let everything go that has happened over multiple decades. And to say, "OK. What
do I want now? Where are we going?"
And we do that -- I do that with myself -- and we do that also with our management team.
We just finished one of our major management conferences, and we take that same
approach where we really say, "OK. What is it that we really want?" And I think that's an
incredible time. We're all so connected all the time, everything's going on, getting so
much e-mail, we're all on our phones, I'm sure everyone on this call is looking down on