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 →
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Jan 2, 2019
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…”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
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.”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
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…”
Jan 2, 2019
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…”
Jan 2, 2019
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…”
Jan 2, 2019
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 …”
Jan 2, 2019
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.”
Dec 1, 2025 positive
Apr 8, 2026 negative
Apr 8, 2026