CIO
also referred to as: cios
4 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jan 4, 2024 by Oliver Jay · across every show →
Everything said about CIO, oldest first
Jan 4, 2024 positive
Atlassian had a much shorter route to CIOs than Asana did
“The edge that they had was eventually the route to the CIO, the CTO to then just, all right, let's just Deploy this across the whole organization. That path is very short. Whereas for many PLG companies like us on the distance was really long.”
Feb 29, 2024 neutral
Jun 6, 2024 neutral
Schillace: Enterprise software de-emphasizes UX once it clears the CIO's checklist
“There's less of an emphasis on end user experience, I think in the enterprise space, because once you're kind of over the line where the CIO says, okay, that's on the checklist of things that your software does, anything above that doesn't really matter very m…”
Oct 23, 2025 negative
Stauch: Enterprise IT sales require top-down executive mandates over bottoms-up adoption
“There has to be top-down alignment. That's what we found, is that there has to be alignment from senior leaders that this has to be done. Because as you get into larger organizations, the actual folks doing the implementation, it can be a very large team. And …”