Martin Casado
19 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 19, 2019 by Martin Casado · said 6 times in 3 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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Mar 19, 2019 neutral
Mar 19, 2019 positive
Cloud incumbents struggle against open-source startups under $100M revenue
“Listen, if you're in the first hundred million dollars Because of revenue, and you're the innovator, and you own the code, I think it's incredibly difficult for these larger incumbents, you know, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft to compete against with you. They …”
Mar 19, 2019 neutral
Mar 19, 2019 neutral
Mar 19, 2019
Structure software services so they can eventually be offloaded to partners
“And I think number two kind of gets mostly to your question, which is, you want the services contracts and services business to follow the model of the traditional services model because at some point in time, You do want to offload it. Now, I mean, I think in…”
Mar 19, 2019 positive
Mar 19, 2019 negative
Open-source software distribution is being superseded by SaaS models
“I almost feel like open source is just being superseded by any software as a service, and what I mean by that is the following. It's like, as soon as you host something as a service, people don't seem to ask so much about open source, right?”
Mar 19, 2019
Mar 19, 2019
IT services growth outpaces product growth because enterprise products suck
“There's a reason why that, like, the growth in services is going higher than the growth in, in vendor products, man, because, like, products suck, and they're hard to use, and they change all the time, and like, have somebody else, you know, arbitrate that for…”
Mar 19, 2019 bearish
Mar 19, 2019 neutral
Mar 19, 2019 neutral
Mar 19, 2019
Category creation historically required direct sales led by technical founders
“And as a result, most category creating technologies went to market through a direct sales force, where you actually had somebody representing the product normally, by the way, the technical founder to begin with, to describe what it is.”
Mar 19, 2019
Scaling enterprise startups evolve through product, sales, and operations phases
“I do believe that companies now go through these stages. The first stage is a product stage. Alright, and like, you don't get out of the product stage until you effectively have an organic motion, or some bottoms up motion, or some brand recognition, and you'l…”
Mar 19, 2019 positive
VMware's Nicira business grew from $20M to $600M ARR during Casado's tenure
“So when I, so when we joined, the revenues were under twenty million. When I left, it was six hundred million annual run rate. And I think last year it's public now that it clocked in 1.3 billion. So that was the, like the total bookings of last year was 1.3 b…”
Mar 19, 2019
Technical founders' biggest mistake is assuming products have intrinsic value
“I think this is probably the number one error technical founders make, and it's the following, right? So, alright, so I'm in my lab, and I make my cool thing, my cool widget, whatever it is, and then the big logical fallacy we all make is that whatever, that w…”
Mar 19, 2019
Mar 19, 2019 negative