Samsara, every mention

Saying yes to everything: How customer obsession built Samsara | Kiren Sekar (CPO) Sep 11, 2025 · 28 mentions

• ▶ 0:06 Brett Berson For today's episode, I'm excited to be joined by Kiran Sekar, the Chief Product Officer at Samsara, a cloud platform for physical operations. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:17 Brett Berson I thought we could kick it off and you could sort of share a little bit of context in terms of what was going on, like, 12 months before you all started, uh, Samsara.
• ▶ 7:37 Kiren Sekar And when we started Samsara, there was the opportunity to look backwards and say, okay, what were the things that were really keys to the success of the company that also aligned with just how we organically enjoyed working? 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 14:19 Kiren Sekar I think there's something that happened both at, at Meraki and Samsara that was really helpful in the early days, which was 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 30:31 Kiren Sekar We were, I'd say, intentional about doing that at, at Samsara as well.
• ▶ 35:07 Kiren Sekar Already using the product, who actually have kind of a vested interest in the company's success, and then there, there's trust. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 48:05 Kiren Sekar Five products from Samsara as opposed to one product from Samsara and four from, you know, four other companies is each of these products kind of stands on its own as, as, as best in class, but then you put them all together and it's way… 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 50:50 Kiren Sekar We tried that at, at Samsara, and a lot of actually specific partners that would have been very successful with at Meraki didn't work.
• ▶ 52:03 Kiren Sekar Both at Meraki and, and, and Samsara, and, and really to this day, we start with a demo, right? 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:00:49 Brett Berson What are the things that you've had to change your mind about as the company has gone sort of in each chapter of growth? 10 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:03:59 Brett Berson Does what's happening with, with LLMs and, and more broadly with AI, does it feel like the early days of Samsara when you had all these converging technologies?
• ▶ 1:07:48 Kiren Sekar Going from, from that to, to building Meraki and, and, and, and now Samsara.