Oracle

“The first mission impossible for me was building an ERP in three months. And I took, you know, I've known in my past life and Oracle and others, ERP implementation took, even at VMware, took a year to two years. It's a massive project with hundreds of millions…”

“They spent like hundreds of millions of dollars. It was a massive project. They had a failed project before, and after that I joined the second time to lead, to turn around the second time the same project was re-initiated and they named it as Project Phoenix.”

“Selling a new age product is, you know, you might have done a lot of selling for companies like, say for example, Infosys or Oracle or whatever, that doesn't mean that you can sell a startup product because at the end of the day, you know you have the backing …”

“Let's say I'm against moonlighting. So, but that was a different kind of moonlighting, actually, where I had told my manager that I'm doing something, and I never let my work even in Oracle suffered for that particular thing.”

“When you look at really good companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, even Oracle. The leadership tenure, especially senior leadership tenure is, as I said, anywhere from seven, eight years to even 15 years.”

“Initially, I think it was very unclear. I think our initial thought was to build maybe a cheaper version of Oracle. Because we thought that maybe that is the right shape of solution. But then I think very quickly we realized over say two or three months that y…”

“Oracle, Salesforce, and ServiceNow all were almost identical in terms of size. About 3500 to 4000 people. Less than a billion dollars in revenue. Between five hundred million and a billion in revenue.”

“How do you bring other capabilities through a platform strategy and then think about partners who can augment that? The more you do that, frankly, the more sticky you become, the harder you are to displace.”

“My sales guy started out as a carpenter in the industry. My co-founder, he was leading Oracle Construction Engineering. So, he was not from the industry, but he had built solutions for the industry. Our first few engineers all came from Oracle.”

“If you are the CIO organization in a Fortune hundred company, and you are thinking about an SAP or an Oracle migration, well, call one 800 Tessera, because if you are looking to drive a major, you know, system of record migration without exploring What, you kn…”

“It was one of the fastest growing products, getting to a billion dollars of revenue at Oracle while I was there.”