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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q How'd you know that Opsware was where it would be at? Like that there was something there. I mean, was that just like a guess in the dark kind of thing?
A So we had some signs at the time all this was going on. I'd actually moved to New York to, um, run our field operations and implementation team. And we w we would repeatedly have these conversations with, uh, with prospective customers and we'd pitch them on this whole Big, beautiful cloud services vision about how they were going to get more efficient and save costs and move faster. And every single one of those meetings would end the same way, which they, they would say, I like your people. I like your services. I like the other customers that you guys already have, but everybody else in your, in your segment has already gone bankrupt. So I'm sure you guys are going to too. And then they, they, they'd pause for a second and they'd say, but You have this Opsware thing that you talk about that you use to run our, your data center. It's like, that sounds really interesting. And so for, there was probably a, about a six month period where we would just kind of laugh at them and say, no, we're, we're a cloud services company. We're not a software company. And that, that's, that's part of where Oxide was born from was the realization that maybe there was actually a gem hidden in, in what we were doing.
AI assessment note: “every single one of those meetings would end the same way”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q How'd you know that Opsware was where it would be at? Like that there was something there. I mean, was that just like a guess in the dark kind of thing?
A So we had some signs at the time all this was going on. I'd actually moved to New York to, um, run our field operations and implementation team. And we w we would repeatedly have these conversations with, uh, with prospective customers and we'd pitch them on this whole Big, beautiful cloud services vision about how they were going to get more efficient and save costs and move faster. And every single one of those meetings would end the same way, which they, they would say, I like your people. I like your services. I like the other customers that you guys already have, but everybody else in your, in your segment has already gone bankrupt. So I'm sure you guys are going to too. And then they, they, they'd pause for a second and they'd say, but You have this Opsware thing that you talk about that you use to run our, your data center. It's like, that sounds really interesting. And so for, there was probably a, about a six month period where we would just kind of laugh at them and say, no, we're, we're a cloud services company. We're not a software company. And that, that's, that's part of where Oxide was born from was the realization that maybe there was actually a gem hidden in, in what we were doing.
AI assessment note: “realization that maybe there was actually a gem hidden in what we were doing.”
