Arvind Nithrakashyap
Co-founder & CTO, Rubrik. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Prior to co-founding Rubrik in 2014, Arvind Nithrakashyap co-founded the Exadata storage platform at Oracle and led infrastructure engineering at Rocket Fuel. At Rubrik, he oversees technical innovation, architecture, and engineering for its cyber resilience platform.
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Everything Arvind Nithrakashyap said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Nithrakashyap: Ignore startup advice to say no; say yes to everything
“I know there's this advice that say no to a 95%. I don't believe in that. I think you have to say yes to yes to everything, right? Because if you lose, if you miss a large fortune, 500 customer, it may be a hundred K deal down the road. That's a 20, 30 X lifet…”
Nithrakashyap: New enterprise products need dedicated incubation sales teams, not core reps
“So the way it works is when you're starting a new product, typically if it's a new buyer, It's hard for a large core sales team to go and do that because they're selling, they're used to selling in a certain way. And then how does it fit into the new product? …”
Nithrakashyap: Enterprise AI Effort Centers on Data Access, Not Model Training
“Most of the time is not spending, it's not spent in foundation models, nobody's training models. The work is in, okay, how do I get access to the data that I need to solve this particular use case?”
Nithrakashyap: About 80% of AI Proofs of Concept Fail to Reach Production
“Almost like we've heard, like, 80% of AI POCs don't make it to production.”
Nithrakashyap: Rubrik is pushing all engineers to code with AI
“Definitely in, on, on coding, we are seeing some potential, huge potential gains that we see. So we are really pushing everybody to start using AI for their coding.”
Rubrik CTO: AI Code Generation Metrics Are Irrelevant Without Business Impact
“I can do a hundred percent AI code if that is not, if we don't meet those business metrics, it makes no difference to the business. So at the end of the day, I think you have to wear the business hat, whether you're in R&D or go to market, it doesn't matter. Y…”
Nithrakashyap: Most Rubrik products originated as hackathon projects
“A lot of the new products that we sell today in our portfolio all started with the hackathon project. We've been running hackathons since we just finished our 10th hackathon last year. So we've been doing it from our, from year two of the company.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Arvind's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 SAASTRLEDGER | Co-founder & CTO, Rubrik | 1 | 7 | — | full record on the Official SaaStr Podcast → |