Tuchen: Microsoft is by far the easiest cloud vendor to partner with
Mike Tuchen · Fireside Chat: Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend (TLND) (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC) · Oct 17, 2018 · at 35:15
Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend, compares cloud providers' partner strategies at Data Driven NYC.
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“They're by far the easiest cloud vendor to partner with right now.”
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