CIO

also referred to as: cios

11 statements across 9 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Scott Kupor · across every show →

Everything said about CIO, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019
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Kupor: Decentralized department budgets increase SaaS retention and vendor advantage
“You know, and we see this a lot in companies, which is, as purchasing decisions have moved away from kind of the CIO as the central, you know, kind of purchasing control of all these things, and now you've got department level purchases, and you see a bunch of…”
Scott Kupor Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:52 a16z Podcast | Valuing Today's Fast-Growing Software Companies
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
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Andreessen: Cloud vendors are more secure than most internal enterprise IT
“I think a lot of CI is becoming increasingly aware especially at companies that haven't mounted a first class effort in staffing and funding for security, that it's highly likely that the cloud vendor is more secure than they are.”
Marc Andreessen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:31 a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back
Jan 2, 2019 negative
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Rubin: Achieving perfect visibility over all enterprise devices is a fool's errand
“Every CIO's dream would be to really, truly be able to have a perfect picture of everything that can access every application and every piece of data in their environment, no matter where it is or who provided it, but it's, in a sense, it's a fool's mission. N…”
Andrew Rubin Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:02 a16z Podcast | Barbarians at the Gate -- How to Think About Enterprise Security Today
Jan 2, 2019
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McKinnon: Unlike CISOs, corporate boards still assume they have not been breached
“What we see is that, that, like earlier, I was talking about the CEO board level and then CIO chief security officer, We see that the CIOs and the chief security officers, they understand that, that they've likely been breached and they're very into monitoring…”
Todd McKinnon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:34 a16z Podcast | Making Security More Useable
Jan 2, 2019
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Dhillon: Tension between CMOs and CIOs has largely resolved
“There was this tension between the chief marketing officer and the CIO. I think they've largely kissed and made up because A, the CIOs are getting to be more business people and the marketing people are getting more technical. So that tension has disappeared i…”
Gaurav Dhillon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:19 a16z Podcast | From Data Warehouses to Data Lakes
Jan 2, 2019
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Waters: Open source communities must align with enterprise buyer priorities
“Community development's really important, but if you just develop a little community, and it doesn't change a CIO, a CTO, anyone that's writing as serious as checks priorities, like by definition, you didn't build a software company that had an opportunity to …”
James Waters Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:51 a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
Jan 2, 2019
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Waters: Open source companies fail by selling support instead of targeting C-level buyers
“So many open source companies have died because they transact around the edges with like director level or technician level with, for support. And they never got to the CTO, the CIO and true strategic account control like the big players had.”
James Waters Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:07 a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
Dec 1, 2025 positive
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Fraden: Enterprise AI buyers will shift to CIO and CFO partnerships
“Today, our customer is the CIO. I think over time, our customer becomes a partnership with the CIO and the CFO.”
Russ Fraden Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 24:28 The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
Apr 8, 2026 negative
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Sinofsky: CIOs fear AI agent integrations will break enterprise systems
“Their fear is, like, unleashing, not just the agents themselves, but humans to do integration. Because you put, People creating new integrations. And you just say, please break my system of record.”
Steven Sinofsky Apr 8, 2026 ▶ 15:08 Box CEO on the AI Adoption Gap | The a16z Show
Apr 8, 2026
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Levie: Autonomous agent coordination will be enterprise executives' next big problem
“This is going to be, like, the new big question that every CFO, CIO, et cetera, is running around trying to, with their hair on fire, trying to figure out.”
Aaron Levie Apr 8, 2026 ▶ 17:14 Box CEO on the AI Adoption Gap | The a16z Show
May 5, 2026
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Tony James: Single CIO approval bottlenecks do not scale in investing
“One CIO that was a very smart guy, but a bottleneck. And it wasn't a scalable model.”
Tony James May 5, 2026 ▶ 44:40 Building Blackstone, Backing Costco, and Working with Munger | Tony James on The a16z Show
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