Insight
Raghuram: AI bottlenecks have shifted from models to physical infrastructure
“What we have seen over the last three years is the steady increase of the capabilities of the models. Where the model is no longer the bottleneck. And in fact, using AI, these models are getting better faster and faster and faster. Now the bottleneck is all wh…”
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Raghuram: No Major Tech Company Was Built From Docker or Kubernetes
“Now, the interesting thing is the industry, nobody made money on either Docker or Kubernetes. I mean, there were some startups, right? But really, there was no big company that was created out of that.”
Insight
Raghuram: Selling to new enterprise user personas requires fenced-off teams
“There are some classes of innovation where you can get by what I would say is close adjacencies, where the If you're building a product that's closely adjacent to your original product. You can take it from zero to one through the existing Salesforce. Yeah. Ri…”
Insight
Raghuram: Non-Founder CEOs Get Less Time to Transform Companies Than Founders
“Founders will get much more time. The market gives them more time. The board gives them more time. The employees give them more time. Non-founders for various reasons, and I don't know if you agree, you don't get the same amount of time.”
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Raghuram: Hyperscaler capex hits $700 billion this year, $1 trillion next year
“Next year, supposedly, it's going to reach a trillion dollars collectively across the bay.
[296] Raghu Raghuram: Hyperscamers this year, it's about 700 billion dollars, right?”
Assertion Contradicted
Raghuram: Current AI memory demand requires three years of manufacturing capacity
“So the flagship conference for the industries, the one called Hot Chips, is going on in Stanford, and the leading memory ranger said the demand they have today will take them three years of capacity to supply.
[588] Raghu Raghuram: It's just today.
[589] Raghu…”
Disclosure
Raghuram: VMware Did Not Know How to Market to Software Developers
“The cloud, I mean, initially Amazon AWS did not change The abstraction of a virtual machine but everything else, the business model changed, and the most important change that AWS brought about was it made infrastructure available to developers without IT. Tha…”
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Raghuram: VMware vSAN failed with storage buyers until sold to compute buyers
“In fact, we had two iterations on vSAN, right? Initially, we said, hey, let's go after the storage buyer. That did not work as well. And then we said, look, we're going to go expand the compute buyer's purview. Right? Then it started working. So the go-to-mark…”
Insight
Raghuram: Enterprise companies should target ideal practitioner profiles, not target corporate logos
“I think the term ideal customer profile, sometimes, especially in larger companies, misleads people into thinking about, oh, my customer is JP Morgan, my customer is Home Depot, I can't. The ideal practitioner profile. Exactly. The ideal practitioner profile. …”
Insight
Raghuram: Storytelling Is Strategy Because 95,000 Employees Cannot Align on Bullets
“The story is the strategy. Right? Because human beings, suddenly, 95,000 people together, are not gonna understand five bullets, right? It is a story.”
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Raghuram: AI agents for knowledge workers will multiply compute demand tenfold
“There are over a billion knowledge workers in the world, right? And with that, it's a long ways to go for that demand. And by the way, the work that they do, all this workflow and automation, So on, and then you get to the back office, which is all the agents.…”
Opinion
Raghuram: Achieving 10x AI efficiency requires first-principles hardware startup innovation
“If you want to have a 10 X on those metrics,
You gotta have new innovation.
And new innovation traditionally comes from building founders thinking about solving the problem from first principles in a different way, right?
And that's what's needed here for t…”
Insight
Raghu Raghuram: Practitioner usage pattern shifts create unshakeable tech lock-in
“Once you start to change the usage patterns and the behaviors, right, of the practitioners, then you get locked in and the disruption is almost impossible to remove, right?”
Insight
Raghuram: Tech transformations must originate from product strategy
“You cannot navigate this AI transformation, or for the matter, any other transformation, if it doesn't start from the product.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Raghuram: Major cloud providers are experimenting with robots for racking servers
“The big guys that own the big cloud data, big data centers, they all are furiously experimenting with robots, right, to do the work of assembling or putting servers into the data center, etc. And so you will see that increasing as a result of the evolution in …”
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Raghu Raghuram: VMware's Second Decade Was Defined by Defending Against Disruption
“If you look at VMware's roughly 20 year history, the first decade was us disrupting and growing, and the second decade was others coming after us to disrupt us, right?”
