On: Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B

[tommica]

How does salesforce have that much to spend? Like they are big, but this is a lot of money.

[UqWBcuFx6NV4r → tommica]

Spoken like someone that’s never seen the Salesforce bill of even a small company. Absurdly high

[MarkSweep → tommica]

They had almost $9 billion in cash on hand at the end of April 2026. And net income of $2 billion. So they afforded it pretty easily.

https://investor.salesforce.com/financials/quarterly-results...

[asattarmd → tommica]

By laying off people.

[htrp → tommica]

Salesforce made 37.9 billion in 2025 of revenue. 6.2 billion in net income (or profits)

[ianm218 → tommica]

Salesforce had ~14 billion in free cash flow last year they have tons of money.

[re-thc → tommica]

They're not building out AI infrastructure

[altmanaltman → tommica]

they are not just big, they are huge

[tcp_handshaker → tommica]

Its the US Dollar that is worth so much less...