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Poojan Kumar

Chief Product Innovation Officer, Commvault. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Poojan Kumar is an enterprise infrastructure entrepreneur who co-founded and served as CEO of PernixData and Clumio. Earlier in his career, he wrote foundational code for Oracle Exadata and worked as an engineering leader at VMware.

What they said28 Shows2

Everything Poojan Kumar said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

NEON SHOW Assertion Partly supported

Poojan Kumar: Oracle Exadata reached $1B revenue as a fast-growing product

“It was one of the fastest growing products, getting to a billion dollars of revenue at Oracle while I was there.”

Poojan Kumar May 10, 2026 ▶ 2:05 How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)

NEON SHOW Assertion Supported

Poojan Kumar: PernixData went from founding to acquisition in 4.5 years

“Four and a half years from beginning to acquisition.”

Poojan Kumar May 10, 2026 ▶ 5:00 How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)

NEON SHOW Disclosure

Kumar: Clumio followed Snowflake's self-serve consumption-oriented platform model

“Back in the day you would essentially, you know, say, okay, how do I build a platform which is very easy to use, right? Where somebody can go, come to your website and start using it and even start consuming it, which is, you know, how Snowflake did it, which …”

Poojan Kumar May 10, 2026 ▶ 10:31 How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)

NEON SHOW Disclosure

Kumar: PernixData advisors and VCs interviewed early sales reps and leaders

“My advisors at Pernix, at least like literally would help me even in interviewing, you know, our head of sales in, in, and before even we had a head of sales, you know, interviewing with the reps and in, in some case, you know, VCs who have essentially neither…”

Poojan Kumar May 10, 2026 ▶ 37:51 How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Poojan's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
NEON SHOWLEDGER	Chief Product Innovation Officer, Commvault	1	20	67% 2/3	full record on the Neon Show →
PRODUCT MARKET FITLEDGER	Chief Product Innovation Officer, Commvault	1	8	—	full record on A Product Market Fit Show →