EP#7: Sleepless AI (and Saunas) are Bringing Wellness to Salesforce Architects and Admins - Jari Salomaa

In our seventh episode, Allison discusses sleepless AI with Jari Salomaa, Co-Founder and CEO of Valo, a San Francisco-based tech start-up that builds discovery, observability and remediation for Salesforce customers with its AI service. What if AI could streamline your Salesforce tasks 24/7, allowing you to focus on what truly matters? On today’s episode, we join Jari, who explains how Valo is helping Salesforce administrators, architects, and developers take quick action using their AI tools, cutting down on time-consuming, repetitive tasks while bringing them better control over users and app connections.

Along the journey today, we also venture into some pretty innovative business networking ideas, product development ploys, combatting common security issues, and embracing wellness tips, such as meeting in saunas, and plunging into the very cold waters of the San Francisco Bay.

To learn more about how Valo is transforming Salesforce administration with AI, and the challenges and rewards of being a startup in this space, be sure to tune in!

Key Points From This Episode:

•    An introduction to Jari Salomaa, and his company Valo.

•    How Valo is providing solutions for Salesforce administration using AI.

•    Valo’s Finnish roots and how it inspired their sauna events.

•    The benefits of their week of wellness, physically and socially.

•    How Valo supports day-to-day Salesforce administration tasks.

•    Valo’s approach to solving common Salesforce security issues.

•    Leveraging customer feedback and AI to drive and manage product development.

•    Jari’s time at Salesforce and what inspired him to start Valo.

•    What keeps Jari energized and his love of cold-water swimming.

•    Our design partner shoutouts and incentives section.

•    The type of organizations that Valo is looking to work with.

 

Jari Salomaa, Founder and CEO of Valo

 

Guest Biography:

 

Currently the CEO and Co-Founder of Valo.ai, a company that builds discovery, observability and remediation for Salesforce customers with its automated AI Admin service, Jari Salomaa combines his 20 years of product development experience with his passion for enterprise cloud services, trust and security in his new start-up based in San Francisco with its R&D based in Finland.

Jari has led and built several successful products from the idea to general availability, mainly in the enterprise domain, including Nokia E-series mobile devices for business, FireEye threat detection solutions, Salesforce Shield, Salesforce Security Health Check, Event Monitoring, Transaction Security, Field Audit Trail, Big Objects as well as built and launched several ServiceNow platform features and capabilities such as Platform Encryption, Data Classification and Data Privacy, Instance Security Center, Adaptive Authentication and ServiceNow Vault.

Tweetables:

 

“One of the great opportunities with AI is the level of consistency in configuration [and] taking action. Unlike a human who, unfortunately, can often make mistakes, [or be] uninformed, or [might not] know really what to do, AI can be a very powerful supervisor [and] sounding board.” — Jari Salomaa [0:14:01]

“We have so many integrations and multiple levels of integrations [in today’s supply chains] that it is easy to lose track. It's not about someone not employing good standards. It's the sheer scope and complexity, which is why you want AI in these situations.” — @allisonthought [0:28:57]

“Ultimately, what really drives me is my passion for solving customer problems. And if we can find a way to help customers grow their business, save time, give time back, save cost, bring more effectiveness, boost their productivity, I feel that we're on the right track.” — Jari Salomaa [0:36:28]

 

“Not only do project managers have to build, they have to sell their innovation, as we mentino in my upcoming book. You could be having these customer dialogues and part of your brain is definitely thinking, “Can I build that? Can I work it into the product?” But the other part of your brain has to be thinking, “Will somebody pay for that? Will it really monetize itself? Is it worth the investment?”— @allisonthought [0:32:27]

 

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Jari Salomaa on LinkedIn
Jari’s company - Valo
San Franscisco Sauna - Alchemy Springs
Artisan chocolate - Chocolat Moderne
AIlison’s AI startup - Discerna

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