CIO

“Most of Slack's deployments don't start with a CIO doing a security review and saying, I approve Slack for deployment. It normally is the opposite, which is a bunch of groups are using it. They're using their personal credit cards.”

“We don't sell top down ever. We don't go in and knock to see on a CIO door and sell top down.”

“Increasingly what is happening is that the most progressive of the CIOs and the chief data officers What they want is independence with respect to vendors, including Snowflake. So they want their storage, their data to be stored in vendor-neutral formats, in o…”

“It's not useful for me to have a meeting with the CIO. The CIO does not care about his time series database. I mean, he should maybe, but he doesn't.”

“I think the tone is actually remarkably optimistic and excited and positive as opposed to, you know, there's a sort of, You know, typical trough of disillusionment, you know, from Gartner and the hype cycle or whatnot.”

“When we talk to the CIO, they know that their engineering teams are using cloud code and codex and cursor, and they're seeing the productivity gains come out of those teams.”