Dheeraj Pandey
Co-founder & CEO, DevRev. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Dheeraj Pandey co-founded the enterprise cloud computing company Nutanix in 2009, serving as CEO for over a decade and leading it through a 2016 Nasdaq IPO. In 2020, he stepped down from Nutanix to co-found DevRev, an AI-driven platform designed to connect developers directly with customers.
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66said about them ↓ Everything Dheeraj Pandey said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Dheeraj Pandey claims no AI company currently has true multi-tenant architecture
“There is no AI company that's multi-tenant right now. There is no AI company that's multi-tenant.”
Salesforce and ServiceNow will resist the MCP movement to protect UI engagement
“We don't just depend on Salesforce's MCP or ServiceNow's MCP. Which, by the way, they won't be very good at. I can tell you that because they don't want to be a data-only company. These large incumbents, they don't want to be a data-only company. They would ra…”
Gong is 'in tatters' because narrow point solutions cannot reach multi-billion scale
“A use case is a focus, but when you look at Gong, for example, it's in tatters. Like, hey, we're just going to do a 10, 15,000 dollar thing, and we just created a two, three hundred million dollar business. But unless you can make a few billion dollars on your…”
AI workplace transformation is a 20-year journey, not an extinction event
“I feel like this is a 20, 3040 year journey, and there'll be new jobs for humans, because simply because we evolve faster, and we need to create history for the LLMs to copy from, you know, because they are basically caricatures, and of course, they do have em…”
Pandey: Selling Exclusively to Large Enterprises Makes Revenue Too Lumpy to IPO
“But I think it's always Smart to actually start with something smaller, whether you start with startups and go to mid-market, or they start from mid-market, go to the enterprise, and before ending up the largest enterprise, because these Larger companies, they…”
Framing AI agents as the future and apps as the past is mistaken
“It's very similar to what's happening right now with apps and agents. How do you bring apps and agents together as opposed to just talk about the future, which is agents, and the past, which is apps. You know, there was a time when SQL was being looked at in t…”
Snowden leaks accelerated VDI demand and created Nutanix's killer use case
“And after Snowden, basically, There was a big push towards virtualizing desktops. Like, okay, no machine leaves the premises. Everything is actually on the inside, and it became a great use case for us to say, let's virtualize the windows, desktops, in an envi…”
SaaS companies moved software to the cloud without solving data integration
“A lot of these SaaS companies are built in silos. They just changed physics, which has location from on-prem to SaaS. That's all they did in those 20 years. But nobody did the chemistry.”
Enterprise knowledge graphs cannot be effective without structured SQL support
“Without SQL, you can't say you have a great knowledge graph.”
Fixed chat channels will wither away as AI teammates take over collaboration
“I think in the new world, collaboration will be with agents who are not over eager to chime in and button for every question. They know everything, but they also have extreme EQ to know when to answer and what to answer and so on. And so we feel like it's head…”
Pandey: Companies do not need separate tools for PMs, support, and devs
“So if you can unify this thing where the developers getting things in real time, and yet, you know, there is a way to put PMs and support people in the middle for more evolved companies, but that doesn't mean you need three tools. You can use security permissi…”
Pandey: Startups Should Never Build Directly For Enterprises From Day One
“Initially, you never build a company directly for the enterprise. You build up to the mid-market, And then if you have the ambition, you grow to the large enterprise. It just happened with pretty much every company.”
Pandey: Bezos and Jassy Debated Whether AWS Should Ever Hire Sales Reps
“One of the biggest things that Jeff and Andy argued about was Do we ever have reps? Now, eventually they did put reps. They put reps a little later than when Andy would have wanted because Azure was going and really winning the hearts and minds of Europe and p…”
Pandey: PLG Freemium Tenants Must Cost Under $10 Annually to Scale
“So you need to make sure that you, the sliver that you give out for tenant is Probably no more than five to 10 dollars for the whole year, because then you can live by all this stuff, and then you can go and eke out 200 bucks a year from them, as opposed to a …”
Pandey: Traditional CRM tools are sales force automation, not real CRM
“Because the CRM tools were built for salespeople. And honestly, it's not customer relationship management. It is Salesforce automation. While CRM means customer relationship management, and that includes their clicks, their interests, their biases, what they d…”
Pandey: Nutanix Surrendered 30% to 35% of Revenue to Ditch Hardware
“Then we get, got rid of the hardware. So we almost gave up 30, 35% of our revenue.”
Pandey: Microservices Fragment Engineers; Single-Threaded Ownership Requires Generalists
“We have really created a, this movement around microservices and this and that, but eventually it's very bottom up way of thinking about things. And you've, you know, fragmented a lot of engineers to just think about their little thing, which is a tribe called…”
AI agents virtualize human roles just as VMs virtualized hardware
“It's what we're doing right now with agents is basically a virtual human role. It's like we're trying to virtualize human agency through these AI agents.”
Apple iOS and AWS both succeeded by converging disparate tools
“IOS removed a lot of gadgets, and AWS removed a lot of gadgets. They just left shifted all that and said, look, you don't have to worry about going to 10 different vendors to spin up an app.”
Public cloud's success relied as much on commerce as open source
“And that actually was one of the big things, like, you know, in consumption, you've got to really respect commerce and the way you meter and bill and invoice every month and all this stuff was, I think public cloud was as much about commerce as it was about op…”
Nutanix maintained 90 NPS by building internal tools, shunning Salesforce
“We had a great net promoter score of 90 for the longest time, yet we had not used Salesforce Service Cloud as a way to really front end our customers with someone else's support software. We said we're going to build our own, so we built our own portal and our…”
Most SaaS applications are just work management tools under different names
“Look, most SaaS tools Our work management tools. We just happen to call them by different names. The work for sales is called opportunity. Work for marketing is called campaigns. Work for support is called tickets. Work for ops is called incidents and work for…”
Large enterprises buy vendor visions and operating systems, not individual features
“Most of the large enterprises, they don't buy features. They buy into a vision, and they want to start with the use case, because it's too much for them to have so many vendors. A large enterprise buys operating systems at scale.”
Fast-growing startups must generate up to 50% of revenue from existing customers
“And as a younger company, if you're growing 50, 6000% year over year, at least 30 to 40 to 50% of your current quarter business Should come from existing customers. And a proxy for that is net dollar based expansion. So if your net dollar based expansion is up…”
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Who brings them up most Vijay Rayapati 43Siddhartha Ahluwalia 8Sudheesh Nair 7Poojan Kumar 4Siddhartha (Siddharth) 1
Statements about Dheeraj Pandey, by other people (3)
Siddhartha: Most new Indian startup millionaires come from Tier-2 towns
“Most of the India's new millionaires among the youth, they have come from tier two towns. So again, coming back to the example of Sachin Bansal, Bini Bansal, Mukesh Bansal, these folks are all from tier two towns of India. If you consider folks from Bihar, the…”
Agarwal: Nutanix hit $1.6B software revenue by 2020 departure
“In 2020, when both Dheeras and I, we left the company, it was at 1.6 billion dollar in software revenue.”
Rayapati: Fewer than 20 post-1982 public enterprise SaaS firms crossed $3B ARR
“So the stat when we used to look at it in 2019 and 20 20 was around just 45 companies ever crossed a billion dollar ARR. From that 45, I think less than, you know, around less than 20 companies ever crossed a three billion dollar ARR.”
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the Neon Show 63
2026 13 mentions in 2 episodes 7 per episode
2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
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| NEON SHOWLEDGER | Co-founder & CEO, DevRev | 1 | 31 | 100% 2/2 | full record on the Neon Show → |
 PRODUCT MARKET FITLEDGER | Co-founder & CEO, DevRev | 1 | 17 | 100% 2/2 | full record on A Product Market Fit Show → |