Soham Mazumdar
Co-Founder and CEO, WisdomAI. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Soham Mazumdar is the co-founder and former Chief Architect of enterprise cloud data management company Rubrik. He previously co-founded Tagtile, which was acquired by Facebook, and worked on core search infrastructure at Google.
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Everything Soham Mazumdar said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Legacy BI Tools Are Like Photoshop: Too Complex for Untrained Users
“The way data analytics has been done, or if you look at the tools, you mentioned a bunch of tools. The way I look at it is they are sort of analogous to Photoshop, you know, like Photoshop is something that graphic designers use to create their Whatever cool a…”
Rubrik's Secret Sauce Was Tackling an Ignored, Legacy Enterprise Problem
“One of the things that Rubrik got right was picking like an old problem which nobody was, ignored problem, right? When you ignore a problem, You get to be the only person kind of doing it. That was like one secret sauce that Rubrik had.”
Enterprise Data Centers Lacked Hyperscaler-Level Scaling Tech
“The ability to scale to petabytes to kind of like just run like massive amounts of compute. That technology was simply absent from enterprise data centers.”
Scale-Out Architecture Gives Enterprise Startups a Land-and-Expand Advantage
“One of the superpowers of like this Scaling technology is that you can start small. So, you know, like when we go into a new organization as a small company you know, and you say, okay, give me a million dollars. Even if you believe that you should get a milli…”
Rubrik Demanded Paid Pilots to Ensure Enterprise Skin in the Game
“So we always did paid pilots at Rubrik. I think the rationale was that, you know, you want some skin in the game. And then, you know, there is a, there is this like data center hardware component, right? So it's kind of like, it's a lot of effort to kind of ge…”
Rubrik Reached $1 Million ARR in About Two Quarters
“I would say, like two quarters, two-ish quarters, I would say. It was quick. It was, I mean, again, like, look, don't compare us to cursor, right? I mean, that's a, Different. Yeah, these days Quake has taken on a whole new meaning, but. Like, think about it. …”
Rubrik Reached IPO with Sub-1% Churn and 130%+ Net Retention
“Sub, sub one percent churn. Right. It's like, I'm glad I'm not there yet because I don't know the exact numbers, but like churn was just not a thing. And that was quite remarkable. Churn was not a thing. And you know, NRR was like, you know, even like at IPO t…”
Rubrik Reached $10 Million ARR in Under Two Years
“I would say year two, certainly we were, we had hit ten million. That's well before year two ended. Year two of selling, right?”
Early Enterprise Customers Paid Heavily for Rubrik Software That Barely Worked
“I think here, I would say after first five customer conversations, to me, it became very real that first of all, I mean, these guys,
Are willing to pay so much money for this thing that barely works.”
Rubrik Was the Biggest Driver of Data Into Microsoft Azure
“Microsoft was like, it eventually became an investor in us. And the reason for that was that we were the biggest driver of data into Microsoft Azure. Even to date, we have you know, given like a few hundred petabytes of data.”
Deploying Legacy BI Tools Often Requires Six-Month Consulting Agreements
“Because these schools were designed for specialists in the past, the prep time to kind of get data into like perfect analyzable shape is enormous. So in fact, like you would have these like six months long consulting agreements before you can even deploy some …”
Wisdom AI Raised a $15M Seed Round With a Rubrik Mafia
“It was like fifteen million total. Again, like my co-founders, they're essentially folks I have kind of worked with within rubrics. This is like a strong bit of a rubric mafia here within the founding team.”
AI Reliability Challenges Are Dramatically Amplified in Enterprise Data Analytics
“So all the things that you hear about, like, AIs, challenges, they get dramatically amplified when it comes to analytics.”
Wisdom AI Already Has 10 Fortune 500 Customers or Active POCs
“Right at this point, we have like about 10 Fortune, 500 companies that are, you know, either in a, either a customer or a POC or like about to start a POC in the next few weeks.”
Google's Original Search Index Was Built for Only 4 Billion Documents
“Initially when Google had designed their web search index, it was designed for four billion documents. Eventually they realized it actually needs to work for a trillion documents.”
Rubrik Raised a $10 Million Initial Seed Round
“Ten million? Yeah. So that was the, that was one investment.”
Rubrik's First Customer Was an Australian Hardware Store Chain
“Our first customer is this, like, think of them as, like, a local hardware chain, like, in New South Wales Australia. Just like, as, like as far out as you can fly from here, that's where our first customer was. Yeah, I mean, I remember the name Lang's Buildin…”
Rubrik Spent Months Building IPv6 For Facebook, Its Only IPv6 Customer
“Facebook ended up being a customer, I would say in year two, and they said, you know, our data centers run on something known as IPv six. It's just a, it's a particular way in which, you know, servers are identified. It was all the rage. The idea was that the …”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Soham's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 PRODUCT MARKET FITLEDGER | Co-Founder and CEO, WisdomAI | 1 | 19 | 20% 1/5 | full record on A Product Market Fit Show → |