Cloudera

“Certainly, there's a lot of money that's going to be lost in these investments. But I think what's going to happen is actually different, in that I think there's going to be, you know, a lot of companies that turn out not to be successful, but a very small num…”

“If 96% of companies are trying AI, only about 30% of IT organizations have approved of what they're doing.”

“Just nine percent of respondents sent that all of their data was available. And only 38% said that most of the organization's data was available.”

“What our perspective has been, the answer can't be you take all that data and move it to the cloud so it can run very neatly on these cloud-based models, because then you lose kind of control over that enterprise context that you built over years, the transact…”

“And it's allowed them to basically take a team of a thousand and repurpose the majority of those people to other functions within the bank. So that's a savings of tens of millions of dollars and a more efficient process and better for the customer who gets his…”

“We ended up implementing lean data as an inbound lead to account matching, and I was able to show marketing that 90% of their inbound leads fell completely out of our town, and literally 40% of them came from partners.”

“Even at Excel, our first investment in Slack was a seed. Our investment in Sentry started as a seed. Our investment in Cloudera was an EIR.”

“When I left a few months ago, Cloudera's annual run rate in terms of revenue was about seven hundred million dollars per year.”

“I believe that Cloudera could be a lot bigger and a lot more successful but the market has been penalizing Cloudera, rightly so, for not capturing the cloud's components as sooner.”

“We don't necessarily get smarter over time. It's just that certain technologies get cheaper. They get, they become more available. So machine learning algorithms have always been around. The data that exists that you could collect has always been around. But i…”

“We picked Redshift and Greenplum for SQL. We picked Cloudetta for Hadoop and Spark. We've added RStudio for data science.”

“So the one that we've got here in the U.S., it's primarily a Cloudera Hadoop stack that we've used a blueprint that was essentially blessed by our brethren over in French, in France and with that, we've got R and Python and Spark. We use some Dataiku along the…”

“I think that's a bit disingenuous on Hortonworks and Cloudrass part to say that Because they would like to, so the, here's the dirty little truth about open source software, open source vendors, right? I love open source as long as it's my open source and not …”

“Because we've got some management monitoring administrative tools That the big, well-capitalized vendors can't simply pick up and use against us. We've got a reason for customers to come and talk to us. It's not really about lock-in. It's about lock-out for IB…”

“Intel spent seven hundred forty million dollars and acquired an 18% stake in Cloudera.”

“At two and a half years, IBM was looking at what we were doing and offering their own open source alternatives, so.”

“The lion's share of the money spent in the market Is going to be for apps, not for the platform.”

“So in general, we won't acquire stuff that competes with existing open source, because that would be crazy, right?”