Genspark COO: 'Salesforce went headless, we're building the head' — agents that use software for you
Scobleizer · x · 2026-09-21
Genspark co-founder and COO Eric Jing laid out the company's thesis on the Chain of Thought podcast: frontier labs build engines (models), Genspark builds the car — wrapping models in a self-driving vehicle for people who can't code, so agents become the user of Salesforce, Slack, and email instead of you. His line: "Salesforce went headless. We're building the head."
Other takeaways from the conversation:
- Evals graded on boardroom-ready output rather than raw intelligence
- A meeting note is where work starts, not where it ends — agents should pick up from there
- SecondBrain Note hardware: mic array plus an explicit consent rule for recording
- GenOffice: an open-source office suite one engineer prototyped in a week
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