Casado: Companies require different leadership profiles across product, sales, and operations stages
Martin Casado · From the Dot-Com Crash to the AI Era: How Builders Survive Waves of Disruption · Aug 6, 2025 · at 34:14
Martin Casado, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, discusses company growth stages with former VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram and Cisco CPO Jitu Patel.
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“Companies go through three stages. They go through the product stage, the sales stage, and the operations. And there's actually leaders for each one of these stages.”
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