Oracle, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Oracle comes up
How A Tiny Team Beat A $1 Billion Giant | Palash Soni, GoldCast Founder
- ▶ 1:05:38 Palash Soni And maybe some bit of, like, Microsoft, Oracle as well.
Questions Every Founder Must Answer Before Taking an Acquisition Offer | Shashank, VNDLY & Pantomath
- ▶ 9:04 Shashank Saxena Your Salesforce, your SAP, your Oracle, your Workday, your Coupa, Ariba, depending on whatever the system of record is for what category, you have those.
- ▶ 1:06:13 Shashank Saxena Uh, in your traditional enterprise sales, like take Workday or SAP or Oracle, they don't do POCs.
- ▶ 1:23:35 Shashank Saxena So a lot of people, if you start your career at a SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow Workday, like, you've seen this side of the equation, but you've never been a customer.
How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)
- ▶ 1:32 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Maybe you can start with your oracle journey. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:48 Poojan Kumar We ended up working on something, uh, brand new and built it from scratch that became Exadata, uh, which essentially was the first integrated hardware software appliance that Oracle shipped for data warehousing before data warehousing… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:49 Poojan Kumar And then, you know, Azure came in, and then GCP, and of course, you know, ah, we have GCP, we have, we have Azure, we have AWS, and again, we have OCI.
- ▶ 32:52 Poojan Kumar He's somebody, you know, uh, I've known from my Oracle days, right, so I obviously saw Nutanix from its early days, uh, and, uh, had a lot of respect for, for him and what he had created, and, and that relationship at some level is already… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:59 Siddhartha Ahluwalia When you were at Oracle, how did you graduate to learn sales?
Why "SaaS Apocalypse" is the Best Filter for Top 1% of Founders | Vignesh Ravikumar, Sierra Ventures
- ▶ 24:09 Vignesh Ravikumar Uh, the old systems that were in place before Phenom showed up, the old ATSs were just, had just been acquired by Oracle and SAP and were being sunset or not being innovated on.
How Capillary Built a Culture That Created 50+ Founders | Aneesh Reddy
- ▶ 1:04:23 Aneesh Reddy Not just on face value of saying, oh, this has been solved in Oracle, so what will this happen?
Why Construction still Runs on Spreadsheets (And How AI Fixes It) | Sneha & Graham, Merlin AI
- ▶ 18:04 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So, uh, why are not customers happy with the old solutions like NetSuite and Oracle in this industry, or even with Procore?
AI Needs to Know Why You took THAT decision | Ashu Garg, Investor at Foundation Capital
What Mistake Founders Make With A-Players | Matt MacInnis | COO Rippling
- ▶ 52:33 Matt MacInnis It's like, how do you integrate Rippling to Oracle ERP or to NetSuite?
Best of 3500 Minutes from Top Founders & Investors in 2025
- ▶ 6:48 unnamed speaker One of the remarkable insights 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.
How AI Will Disrupt India’s IT Services Industry And Its 1.5M Engineers/Year | Bhaskar Ghosh, 8VC
- ▶ 28:19 Bhaskar Ghosh Oracle on the enterprise software side.
- ▶ 32:57 unnamed speaker Uh, American companies, whether it's Oracle, whether it's LinkedIn, whether it's Yahoo, whether it's Google, whether it's Facebook, have had phenomenal, and you know, before that Cisco analog devices has had amazing core product team…
How Startup’s Should Find REAL Customer Pain w/ 4x Founder Shreesha Ramdas (Lumber)
- ▶ 2:01 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And construction is a very tough space dominated by old players like SAP, you know, on the other end like Oracle, and on the payroll side like ADP. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:10 Shreesha Ramdas Um, my co-founder, he was leading Oracle Construction Engineering. 2 times in the scene
Learn from Silicon Valley’s Best Companies (Hubspot, Google & Salesforce) w/Avanish Sahai
- ▶ 2:05 Avanish Sahai And when I first came here in late eighties to do an Oracle to now it is, you know, a big part of what all of us think about and use, you know, so many technologies that have been born here.
- ▶ 19:41 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So your career has spanned like 30 years, you know, McKinsey, Oracle, and Salesforce, you create, help create app exchange and, you know, took it to more than a billion dollars, uh, in ecosystem revenue. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:32 Siddhartha Ahluwalia In the first wave, which was the on-prem wave, you were able to pick up Oracle, right? 2 times in the scene
What is Tesla’s Former CIO Building Next? 4 Years Stealth → $4B Company | Jay Vijayan, Tekion
- ▶ 40:35 Jay Vijayan Do we have enough money and time to build the entire, you know, true ERP backend, which is the general ledger, AP, AR, which is the, usually has been perfected by companies like SAP and Oracle, not even Salesforce, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:46 Jay Vijayan I was working at Oracle, but I had a lot of debt in my view, and there are a lot of people who also said,
How NVIDIA, Meta & Dropbox Taught Me To Build Great Products | Vasanth, Founder - Featurely
- ▶ 46:36 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Because Microsoft today wins, uh, or Salesforce wins, or Oracle wins, majorly because, you know, their distribution is in, if you talk about Fortune, 500, entire 500.
Why Traditional Playbooks Are Failing & What Really Works In SAAS? | WizCommerce, Pienomial & Merlin
- ▶ 1:31 unnamed speaker So, replacing the likes of NetSuites, JD Edwards, Oracles, all of your old traditional, thirty-year-old ERPs that have not changed, and trying to make it more beautiful, more efficient, and more automated.
Why Stripe Paid $150M For A Young Indian Startup | Saurya Prakash Sinha, Recko
- ▶ 9:05 Saurya Prakash Sinha I think our initial thought was to build, uh, maybe a cheaper version of Oracle.
How To Hire, Train & Retain Talent To Build A Great Company | Vijay Rayapati | Khadim Batti
- ▶ 13:49 Vijay Rayapati Actually, that's one of the remarkable insights when you look at really good companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, even Oracle.
$1Billion CRM From India Competing With Salesforce | Nilesh Patel, LeadSquared
- ▶ 25:23 Nilesh Patel So I would think, uh, an Oracle, like you don't see Oracle everywhere, right? 2 times in the scene
Flipkart’s Success Secrets, VC Power Law, And IPO Market : RTP Global Partner, Nishit Garg
- ▶ 31:52 Nishit Garg Obviously, there are companies, ah, for tech companies, there are players in US, there are the biggies, the Googles, and Microsofts, and Oracle, you know, some of these guys, and they will always continue to play this game.
American Venture Capitalist Explains India’s BRIGHT FUTURE by 2030 | Bhaskar Ghosh | Neon Show
- ▶ 3:01 Bhaskar Ghosh Um, was lucky to help build great teams, um, at Oracle, and then Yahoo, and then LinkedIn, and then a tiny fintech company called Nord Wallet. 2 times in the scene
Top SaaS startups to watch in 2023 with Alok Goyal, Investor in Whatfix, LimeChat, GTM Buddy
- ▶ 39:36 Alok Goyal SAPs and the oracles, et cetera, got created, right? 2 times in the scene
Is India's Real Estate Industry Doomed? | NoBroker IITian Founder on The Neon Show
- ▶ 16:37 Akhil Gupta So, uh, for initial few months I was working with Oracle.
- ▶ 25:39 Akhil Gupta Then I started working with Oracle just because I didn't get a general thing, which I, even I didn't know what I wanted to do. 5 times in the scene
The Reality of Web3 That Only Few know ft Santosh Panda, Co-Founder, Foundership
- ▶ 12:39 Siddhartha Ahluwalia He was working in Oracle and we two instantly hit off, right? 2 times in the scene
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…
- ▶ 47:38 Dheeraj Pandey I, within a year, I actually get to do my internship at Oracle in Redwood Shores, California. 3 times in the scene
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.
Journey of Reliance acquiring Fynd, with Founder, Farooq Adam | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast
- ▶ 24:38 Farooq Adam SAP, Oracle, and all the way to, you know, these, these file systems that existed in the legacy systems.
Shailesh Ghorpade on Exfinity's journey to partner with the best SaaS startups of India
- ▶ 50:52 Shailesh Ghorpade We can't say that, you know, um, 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…
What made Elon Musk approach former Tesla CIO Jay Vijayan twice in 12 months?
- ▶ 1:46 Jay Vijayan Seed idea of potentially starting a company has been there for a very long time with me, and it probably, I would say, solidified a bit when I was at Oracle. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:39 Jay Vijayan Literally, it needs to have, um, traditional ERP functionalities, like, you know, managing inventory, vehicle inventory, parts inventory, you know, supply chain, accounting, general ledger, AP, AR, all of the important ones, these are done… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:00 Jay Vijayan It's very complex, and a lot of things can go wrong, because companies like Oracle and SAP have been doing this for decades, and why don't you partner with some other company in this, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:35 Jay Vijayan So from Oracle time, I think VMware helped phenomenally because it was a very fast paced growth.
- ▶ 55:57 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Oracle database, which, which was certification, which was, I think, not really common at that point in time, and then, then you landed a job at Oracle, which, which could have been comfortable, and you could have easily retired there, but… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:57 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Oracle database, which, which was certification, which was, I think, not really common at that point in time, and then, then you landed a job at Oracle, which, which could have been comfortable, and you could have easily retired there, but…
- ▶ 1:06:57 Jay Vijayan He was, uh, definitely drilling down deeper on those things. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:52 Jay Vijayan 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.
Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital on Technical insights and building a fund for Engineers
- ▶ 15:53 Ashmeet Sidana I met the founder Inderpreet when he was working at Oracle, where he was a software entrepreneur, and subsequently went to Loyalty Lab.
Somesh Dash, IVP on learnings from the crisis of 2002 & 2008 and investing in resilient companies
- ▶ 1:24 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Some of the companies where you have actively participated in IVP's investments are, are this, which has been acquired by Oracle. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:28 Somesh Dash You know, this is where Oracle got started.
- ▶ 33:01 unnamed speaker It was a very different time in the late nineties after Mark left Oracle that he was building that company, uh, and they went public a lot earlier.
100x Entrepreneur | Episode 8 | Sandeep Aneja, Founder and Managing Partner, Kaizen Private Equity
- ▶ 11:12 Sandeep Aneja My wife used to work at Oracle in Redwood Shows, and I used to work in, uh, San Francisco at Outlook Ventures, and our son was born. 3 times in the scene