a16z(@a16z ):Last month Salesforce announced it would open its APIs and launch a headless product, essentially betting that in an agentic world, its value lies in the data layer, not the UI. The announcement is a useful prompt for a more interesting question: if you strip away the UI and expose the database, what are you actually left with? a16z's Seema Amble on where defensibility moves in the agentic era & how businesses will adapt:

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2026.05.13 15:45

Last month Salesforce announced it would open its APIs and launch a headless product, essentially betting that in an agentic world, its value lies in the data layer, not the UI. The announcement is a useful prompt for a more interesting question: if you strip away the UI and expose the database, what are you actually left with? a16z's Seema Amble on where defensibility moves in the agentic era & how businesses will adapt: