Gartner
includes Gartner Hype Cycle, Gartner Cool Vendors, Gartner Reports
6 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Oct 26, 2018 by Martin Casado · said 47 times in 23 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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brought up most by Michael King (9), Stacey D'Amico (5), Martin Casado (5), Steven Sinofsky (3), Sonal Chokshi (3), Chris Dixon (2), Balaji Srinivasan (2), Ash Ashatosh (2)
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2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 35 mentions in 16 episodes 2 per episode
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- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
Everything said about Gartner, oldest first
Oct 26, 2018 neutral
Casado: Industry analysts matter for down-market buyers, not early adopters
“Like when you're dealing with like the early adopters, like the first adopters, they don't really listen to analysts because they're often like kind of wild west and they'll engage with you directly. But as soon as you go down market, like Gartner is really im…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Ashatosh: 2015 Gartner expo floor had virtually no hardware vendors present
“In fact, at the Gartner event, what is fascinating? Was the entire floor. There was not a single hardware vendor except a small booth by EMC, and even small booth by Pure Storage, because I guess they were going public and they had a token show that. There was…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Lakhani: Tech Analysts Emerged to Decode IBM's Opaque Market Position
“Analysts as we know them today really came about because there was a point in time in history where IBM was a firm that moved the markets the largest and there was no information about what IBM was doing outside of IBM and financial analysts couldn't get to th…”