Poojan Kumar

9 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 10, 2026 by Poojan Kumar · across every show →

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May 10, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Kumar: PernixData advisors and VCs interviewed early sales reps and leaders
“My advisors at Pernix, at least like literally would help me even in interviewing, you know, our head of sales in, in, and before even we had a head of sales, you know, interviewing with the reps and in, in some case, you know, VCs who have essentially neither…”
Poojan Kumar May 10, 2026 ▶ 37:51 How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)
May 10, 2026
Insight
Kumar: Public cloud backup requires fundamentally different architecture than on-prem
“And the scale and the architecture needed to go and, you know, provide backup and cyber resilience for them was very different than an architecture needed to go backup, you know, on-prem or even backup SaaS applications, right?”
Poojan Kumar May 10, 2026 ▶ 8:46 How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)
May 10, 2026 positive
Insight
Poojan Kumar: Successful AI startups scale through bottom-up adoption, not top-down sales
“The ground up adoption is how you have to target it. You have to essentially think about how are you going to essentially get this thing in the hands of your end user, make it very easy and essentially make sure that it's something that is, is, is loved by the…”
Poojan Kumar May 10, 2026 ▶ 20:08 How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)
May 10, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Poojan Kumar: Oracle Exadata reached $1B revenue as a fast-growing product
“It was one of the fastest growing products, getting to a billion dollars of revenue at Oracle while I was there.”
Poojan Kumar May 10, 2026 ▶ 2:05 How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)
May 10, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Kumar: Clumio followed Snowflake's self-serve consumption-oriented platform model
“Back in the day you would essentially, you know, say, okay, how do I build a platform which is very easy to use, right? Where somebody can go, come to your website and start using it and even start consuming it, which is, you know, how Snowflake did it, which …”
Poojan Kumar May 10, 2026 ▶ 10:31 How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)
May 10, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Kumar: No vendor has yet holistically solved AI agent data lineage
“I think that is very early days. I don't think anybody has really tackled this holistically yet, but this is I think important.”
Poojan Kumar May 10, 2026 ▶ 15:32 How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)
May 10, 2026
Insight
Poojan Kumar: Enterprise startups must be built on major sector discontinuities
“Whenever I, you know, look at starting something, at least in the enterprise, you have to look at what's the big discontinuity happening in the sector, right?”
Poojan Kumar May 10, 2026 ▶ 3:17 How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)
May 10, 2026 positive
Insight
Kumar: Startup M&A works like closing a long-term enterprise deal
“When somebody is you know, is looking to buy a company at the end of the day, you know, they're buying, you know a platform, a company, to essentially make it part of the bigger entity and really grow it, right? And so I think it's a large deal at some level, …”
Poojan Kumar May 10, 2026 ▶ 30:28 How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)
May 10, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Poojan Kumar admits raising far more capital than his startups actually needed
“I think, you know, I, I've made my fair share of mistakes there too. When you raised, you know, way more capital than what you needed, right?”
Poojan Kumar May 10, 2026 ▶ 29:14 How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)
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