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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where IBM comes up
The New Rules of Startups Moats with 3x Founder Mahesh Ram ex-Zoom Al
- ▶ 57:14 unnamed speaker So companies like IBM, HP, GSK. 3 times in the scene
We Turned Pre-Seed Into a $10 Billion Category | Gaurav Jain, Afore Capital
- ▶ 56:58 Gaurav Jain Yeah, you know, um, the, the, what I can share is, like, our, all our, the first three funds are top quartile, um, DPI and TVPI, um, and, uh, you know, it's, it's been through, like, some organic, um, M&A that's happened through companies…
After $9B IPO This Founder is Rebuilding Internet for Agents | Sudheesh Nair, Thoughtspot, Nutanix
- ▶ 25:25 Sudheesh Nair You know, there used to be a saying, you know, you don't get fired for buying IBM. 2 times in the scene
Why "Boring" Infrastructure is the Best Path to a $60B Company | Manish Jindal, Cloudflare & Arize
- ▶ 1:06:00 Manish Jindal Um, other thing we are doing is we also have built very strong partnerships, you know, with the AWS, with GCP, with the NVIDIA, with IBM, where, uh, they also introduce us to a lot of their customers because, you know, if I am, uh, let's…
Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
- ▶ 1:06:44 Ashmeet Sidana His great insight was that he knew that he wanted to get developers onto his platform, and that was the back door to making Microsoft into a great platform company, and that is why IBM lost. 2 times in the scene
Which AI Model are companies actually Paying For in 2026? | Rohit Agarwal, Portkey
- ▶ 11:17 Rohit Agarwal IBM has one.
AI Needs to Know Why You took THAT decision | Ashu Garg, Investor at Foundation Capital
Wall Street Rejected This CEO & Then He Did a $200M IPO | Kanwal Rekhi
- ▶ 0:34 Kanwal Rekhi The digital computer at IBM priced at 30,000 dollars, and I priced mine at 4995.
- ▶ 15:06 Kanwal Rekhi Was the year sort of world changed IBM PC data announced, you know, the first time there's a professional machine on the desktop of the office workers backed by IBM. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:06 Kanwal Rekhi Was the year sort of world changed IBM PC data announced, you know, the first time there's a professional machine on the desktop of the office workers backed by IBM.
- ▶ 29:55 Kanwal Rekhi I looked at the digital computer at IBM, and what were they, they were doing?
How TATA Acquired Jaguar, Tetley, Corus and Redefined Indian Ambition | Harish Bhat
- ▶ 8:20 Harish Bhat And when he came to India, he had a job offer from IBM at that time.
What 20 Years of Investing taught Somesh Dash of IVP after backing Perplexity, Figma, Dropbox
- ▶ 5:04 Somesh Dash you see folks from India, IBM, Indian diaspora sitting there, and they're in leadership roles at very, very quintessentially American slash Silicon Valley companies.
Learn from Silicon Valley’s Best Companies (Hubspot, Google & Salesforce) w/Avanish Sahai
- ▶ 28:10 Avanish Sahai Of course, we talk about IBM, HP down the street here. 2 times in the scene
6sense Did What Google Couldn’t : Targeting Companies, Not People | Viral Bajaria
- ▶ 35:37 Viral Bajaria I know IBM is in market. 3 times in the scene
Growth, Migration and FDI: The Real Kerala Story with Minister P. Rajeev
WHAT Will Decide The Next Superpower? | Raja Manickam | iVP Semiconductor
- ▶ 46:27 Raja Manickam You know, we, you know, there are good examples of chasing IBM out.
$200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
- ▶ 1:03:57 Sharad Sharma The same thing happened to IBM. 2 times in the scene
75 Minutes Of Pure Business Insights From The Man Behind BigBasket, BlueStone & HomeLane
Nvidia’s Success, Chip Race, India’s Semiconductor Mission, & Hardware Vs Software | Raja Manickam
- ▶ 26:37 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Laptop and IBM laptop because they all had the same underlying motherboard, right?
- ▶ 36:15 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Like for example, IBM was the NVIDIA of 19 eighties only like having 90% share in the computer market and then everybody had the computer technology. 8 times in the scene
These 90 Minutes Will Teach You Everything About SaaS Business | SaaSBOOMi Co-Founder | Neon Show
- ▶ 28:35 Manav Garg He used to be the CEO of Sterling Commerce, which IBM acquired.
American Venture Capitalist Explains India’s BRIGHT FUTURE by 2030 | Bhaskar Ghosh | Neon Show
- ▶ 1:01:23 Bhaskar Ghosh If you look at a lot of the contributions of AI, while it is, you know, earlier contributions used to come from IBM and Bell Labs, you know, a lot of contributions that come from Facebook and
Why Do Indians WORSHIP Bhagwan Using Puja Flowers? | Hoovu Founder on The Neon Show
- ▶ 1:23:34 Rhea Karuturi Uh, recently we were on a panel at IBM and Diksha Pandey, who's the founder of Samosa Party was also on it.
Watch This BEFORE Renting Out Your Property In India! | SEBI Manager Deepak Shenoy on The Neon Show
- ▶ 2:56 Deepak Shenoy But if the startup fails, then you get a better job than if you, if you were in one of those IBM type companies for that much time, right?
Wealth Creation, Life's Purpose, Brotherly Stories - Paras & Pallav on Building Global SaaS Products
- ▶ 42:27 Pallav Nadhani IBM has about a hundred billion dollars in revenue today, even today. 3 times in the scene
WeWork In India - The Untold Story with CEO Karan Virwani | 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 6:05 unnamed speaker There I got exposed to us, you know, doing these large business parks for companies like Google, Microsoft, IBM, you know, really large multinational companies, and there's such a stark difference between the quality of real estate or the…
Building Product That Sells Itself Ft. Dheeraj Pandey, CEO-DevRev, Co-Founder-Nutanix
- ▶ 31:14 Dheeraj Pandey And this is how things used to be in Oracle, IBM, SAP days cold start, you know, and two, three years sales cycles, and then implementation costs and things like that to where things are right now, where you can actually let your…
Avlesh Singh on BUILDING WebEngage, 100 Cr Revenue Company & Being Resilient in the Last 10 Years!
- ▶ 26:42 Avlesh Singh I'm not sure if the, if the audience would be familiar, all these large software providers, Adobe's, Salesforce, Oracle, IBM's, except for Microsoft, everybody's in play.
Shruti Gandhi, Array Ventures on taking SaaS companies from Zero to $10 Million ARR
- ▶ 1:44 Shruti Gandhi I work at IBM, which is in the same town. 3 times in the scene
Blume Ventures: Sanjay Nath on Post Covid-19 Scenario for Startups & Building Future of Work
- ▶ 1:29 Sanjay Nath And then moved over to PwC Strategy Consulting and PwC was then acquired by IBM and became a member of the Mumbai Angels, which is when I, you know, got my first exposure into angel investing and to venture capital.
Episode 52 | Anand Lunia, General Partner, IndiaQuotient
- ▶ 37:59 Anand Lunia That, you know, Indian businesses will not pay, Indian large businesses will only use IBM or Microsoft software, Indian small businesses don't pay, they only pirate.
How did TaxiForSure get acquired for $200 million? | T. N. Hari, Advisor, Fundamentum
- ▶ 2:20 T. N. Hari In the process, we were also acquired by IBM. 2 times in the scene