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▶ 54:48 · $CRM · KeyBanc downgraded Salesforce: Agentforce not materially accelerating topline despite AI hype
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The Information

Exclusive: OnlyFans Investor James Sagan Sits Down with The Information’s CEO Jessica Lessin

2026-08-12 · 9 company · 6 thematic
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james sean

Founder of Architect Capital, a San Francisco-based investment firm focused on complex, mission-driven private market opportunities. Previously invested in Juul (harm reduction) and recently acquired ~16% of OnlyFans at a $3B valuation with plans to increase to a majority stake. Describes himself as a value investor at core who structures LP bases to avoid principal-agent problems.

james sagan

Founder of San Francisco-based multi-strategy firm Architect Capital; previously invested in Juul; focuses on complex, misunderstood harm-reduction businesses with incentive-aligned LP base.

matt murphy

Matt Murphy is a partner at Menlo Ventures who led the firm's seed investment in Anthropic and focuses on AI infrastructure, applications, and frontier model companies.

jackson ader

Covers ~100 software companies; analyzes Q2 earnings, M&A landscape (sharks and minnows), and Salesforce's Agentforce trajectory.

phoebe lou

Phoebe Lou is a reporter at The Information covering Nvidia and the semiconductor industry. She broke the story about Nvidia testing reduced-memory versions of its Rubin Ultra GPU due to HBM supply constraints.

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“the hope that Agent Force would be this wonderful engine of acceleration... is just not coming to fruition. And so that was the reason for our recent downgrade... until that actually meaningfully raises the total topline it's kind of hard…”
—jackson ader
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KeyBanc downgraded Salesforce: Agentforce not materially accelerating topline despite AI hype
Agentforce has failed to deliver the growth acceleration that drove a two-year overweight rating; the recent engineering leadership shakeup is not the core issue — the product sim…