Autodesk

“Everything that you see in the world, the cars that you see on the roads, the bridges they drive over, the machines that you see, the phone, The buildings, it's built and designed using our software.”

“You learn a set of skills that you, is really hard to learn in a larger company, because everybody's being so careful in a larger company, or they're being so political, or all these things. All of that's stripped away in a startup. You're just trying to survi…”

“Carl, on the other hand, would create hundreds of these. He'd let them pop up everywhere. To the point that it would stress the company's ability to execute. Carl's style was much more let a thousand flowers bloom and maybe never prune a single flower.”

“We're very passionate about killing our own businesses, killing our own products, which we are very passionate. I think that's a cultural norm in the company”

“It works much better at smaller companies than it would ever work at a large company, right?”

“For six months, no major strategic decisions were made at the company.”

“In the world of hyper automation that we were heading into, Just being a design software company, which is what we were back then, wasn't gonna be enough. We had to be a design and make software company. We had to extend ourselves across the process.”

“I think three quarters of the leadership team was either, either, you know, left on their own or were asked to leave.”

“The further something is away from your business, the harder it is for you to get to it over a period of time and build it. Cause usually what you wanna do is do, do hops and hops, but if you take a big leap, sometimes you leap too far and it's really hard to …”

“We actually coined the phrase generative design 10 years ago.”

“We built our own custom AI models off of data that we have from our customers.”

“I go home every night thinking I do something that's useful to the world. I don't go home thinking I screwed up teenagers' minds. I don't go home thinking I screwed up the whole publishing industry. I don't go home with any of those feelings. I go home feeling…”

“And you can't believe how many people I've had in my office that try to convince me impulsiveness is a virtue. And they're confusing impulsiveness with boldness or decisiveness. Impulsiveness is actually without thought.”

“I've been a radical independent most of my life. I lean left, obviously.”

“They, today they work in one tool from, that's called Revit it's, it was built in 97, acquired by Autodesk in 2002. Nothing had happened since.”

“To your point, it'll change everything, like we're working with Autodesk on Maya so you can imagine architecture, industrial design pretty much any field you can have a co-pilot for everything.”

“Public investors, like there's so much written about what happened with Zendesk or Autodesk, or these really bad things that happen. It's pretty rare. And I have found that public investors be pretty rational.”

“Actually, I learned more about sales, for instance, working for a corporate level thousand employee company than I did working for enterprise level companies like Autodesk. So I think sometimes yeah, sometimes aiming for the top name just for the sake of worki…”

“I think first off, it's totally possible, right? I was leading our team, I don't know, you know, however many, however much revenue we signed us up for that year and Hitting our targets, leading a team of over 400 people parallel pathing conversations with our…”

“Salesforce.com was the first strategic investor, followed by Autodesk, and then last year I brought in KKR, the growth side, the technology growth fund of KKR.”

“In the millions. It was in the millions.”