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28 statements across 21 episodes · 13 bullish · 8 bearish · 20 people on the record · first statement Oct 26, 2020 by Jishnu Bhattacharjee · said 193 times in 60 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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2026 66 mentions in 21 episodes 3 per episode
- How Digital TEAMMATES Transform Billion Dollar Industries? | Samay Kohli of GreyOrange & Budy.ai
- After $9B IPO This Founder is Rebuilding Internet for Agents | Sudheesh Nair, Thoughtspot, Nutanix
- Why "Boring" Infrastructure is the Best Path to a $60B Company | Manish Jindal, Cloudflare & Arize
- AI Needs to Know Why You took THAT decision | Ashu Garg, Investor at Foundation Capital
- Questions Every Founder Must Answer Before Taking an Acquisition Offer | Shashank, VNDLY & Pantomath
- Which AI Model are companies actually Paying For in 2026? | Rohit Agarwal, Portkey
- The New Rules of Startups Moats with 3x Founder Mahesh Ram ex-Zoom Al
- The Man Training GPT, Gemini & Claude Reveals What's Coming Next | Vijay Krishnan, Turing
- 13 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 62 mentions in 13 episodes 5 per episode
- Learn from Silicon Valley’s Best Companies (Hubspot, Google & Salesforce) w/Avanish Sahai
- 4 Startups. 2 Founders and 3 Eras Of SaaS: Installable → Cloud → AI | Sreedhar & Kiran
- Best of 3500 Minutes from Top Founders & Investors in 2025
- GPT-5 is NOT Your Competitor It's GPT-7 |Ashu Garg, Foundation Capital | Databricks,Turing, Cohesity
- $1Billion CRM From India Competing With Salesforce | Nilesh Patel, LeadSquared
- How AI Will Disrupt India’s IT Services Industry And Its 1.5M Engineers/Year | Bhaskar Ghosh, 8VC
- Nvidia’s Success, Chip Race, India’s Semiconductor Mission, & Hardware Vs Software | Raja Manickam
- How Ashish Toshniwal built a $350M Co after an email from Steve jobs | Ashish Toshniwal
- 5 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 17 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
- MUST WATCH for Indians Abroad - Remote Work, House Help & More | Kovai.co Founder | Neon Show
- Indian SaaS, AI Wave, IPO & Best Country For Co. Registration | 2024 Insights With SaaS Founder
- Deepfakes, AGI, Jobs Under Threat & More | DevRev Founder, Manoj Agarwal | Neon Show
- These 90 Minutes Will Teach You Everything About SaaS Business | SaaSBOOMi Co-Founder | Neon Show
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 20 mentions in 5 episodes 4 per episode
- Top SaaS startups to watch in 2023 with Alok Goyal, Investor in Whatfix, LimeChat, GTM Buddy
- How they built a $600M SaaS Company? Ft. Khadim Batti & Vara Kumar Namburu - Co-founders, Whatfix
- Podcasting to Investing: Breakdown of Our Journey | 100x Entrepreneur
- American Venture Capitalist Explains India’s BRIGHT FUTURE by 2030 | Bhaskar Ghosh | Neon Show
- The India Opportunity, Youth’s BIGGEST Problem & Future of Startups | India Quotient VC on Neon Show
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 10 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Building Product That Sells Itself Ft. Dheeraj Pandey, CEO-DevRev, Co-Founder-Nutanix
- Scaling From 0 to 120Cr+ Revenue Playbook For SaaS-Entrepreneurs in India Ft. Yamini Bhat, CEO-Vymo
- The Process & Preparation of IPO Ft. Tracxn Technologies Founders Neha Singh & Abhishek Goyal
- How A 23 year Old Created A $8M Yearly Revenue Content Marketplace Business ft. Anirudh Singla
- Building a Generational Company That's Changing the Way Legal Services are Delivered
- Avlesh Singh on BUILDING WebEngage, 100 Cr Revenue Company & Being Resilient in the Last 10 Years!
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Jon Sakoda, Founder, Decibel Partners on importance of having a coach for early-stage founders
- Inside the mind of Krishna Kumar, Founder, CropIn- the largest Agritech SaaS startup of India
- SaaS from India to the US: Myths Debunked ft Anand Jain, Co-founder, CleverTap
- Inside the mind of Abhishek Goyal, Co-Founder, Tracxn | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast | Top Podcast Ep
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 11 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Somesh Dash, IVP on learnings from the crisis of 2002 & 2008 and investing in resilient companies
- Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Director, Nexus VP on the success recipe of Druva and Postman
- Shruti Gandhi, Array Ventures on taking SaaS companies from Zero to $10 Million ARR
- Inside the mind of Anand Chandrasekaran, on building 5 products with 10m+ users and angel investing
- Blume Ventures: Sanjay Nath on Post Covid-19 Scenario for Startups & Building Future of Work
- Episode 49 | Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner, Prime Ventures
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
Everything said about Salesforce, oldest first
Oct 26, 2020 positive
Nexus VP's first investment DimDim was a precursor to Zoom
“The first investment that Nexus made was in early in a company called DimDim, which would have been Zoom. Like, if you look at it was exactly Zoom, Zoom prior to Zoom. The idea was, you know, Webex and others didn't have the experience, and this gentleman out …”
Feb 28, 2022 positive
Jul 4, 2022 negative
Pandey: Traditional CRM tools are sales force automation, not real CRM
“Because the CRM tools were built for salespeople. And honestly, it's not customer relationship management. It is Salesforce automation. While CRM means customer relationship management, and that includes their clicks, their interests, their biases, what they d…”
Jul 25, 2022 neutral
Dec 9, 2023 positive
Ghosh: Highly Sticky SaaS Companies Require Platform and Data Moats
“SaaS companies tend to be built where there is some platform and data mode placed somewhere. If you think about ServiceNow, they're still sitting on this data mode, which is their CMDB. If you think of Salesforce, they're still sitting on a, what is essentiall…”
Jan 26, 2024 neutral
Kumar: GTM execution, not technology, is the main bottleneck for Indian SaaS
“Today, you can build a sales force. Building Salesforce is not a problem. Only the GTM part is is the problem because that is what we are lagging because we didn't learn the playbook in the last 20 years. So only technology part we learned.”
Jan 26, 2024 bullish
Kumar: India will build Salesforce-scale tech giants in 10-20 years
“I think maybe in the next two, 20 years, we will see something like the next wave. Like, you know, now we are building products. It's all about now. How do you build a large scale products like Salesforce or Microsoft? It will happen. Eventually it will happen…”
Jul 12, 2024 positive
Aug 31, 2024 bearish
Mar 15, 2025 bearish
Sharma: Indian Startups Will Struggle Against Incumbents Like Salesforce In AI
“Similarly, I would say in many corporate use cases you know, will we be able to win? I don't think so. For example Salesforce has got such a lock in on customer facing kind of corporate use cases. And since our way of thinking about those use cases is more or …”
Apr 18, 2025 positive
Sep 19, 2025 bearish
Oct 10, 2025 bullish
Dodda: Multiple Indian cross-border SaaS companies will reach Salesforce scale
“Yeah, I mean, I'm sure there's gonna be a lot of cross border SaaS companies with India roots that will happen and that will be large businesses, like the HubSpot or the Salesforce of the world. I think I'm sure you will see a lot, we'll see a lot more of this…”
Nov 7, 2025 neutral
Nov 7, 2025
Sahai: Disruption occurs when challengers build simpler, easier-to-deploy enterprise tools
“You have to imagine that someone somewhere in a garage or in whatever we work or whatever it may be, is thinking about how what you do as the incumbent is not good enough, is not delivering value to the customer. It's not easy to deploy. It's not easy to use. …”
Nov 7, 2025 bullish
Feb 21, 2026 bearish
Kohli: The original promise of seamless SaaS failed for enterprise customers
“That promise has not been true for enterprise. It might be true for consumer SaaS products, right? Like, you know, if you call Gmail a SaaS product or you call Zoom as a SaaS product, right? Sure, it's true. But, I mean, that's not the bulk of the SaaS product…”
Feb 21, 2026 bearish
Kohli: LLMs replacing enterprise CRMs is hype due to edge-case costs
“Imagine if you're a user and you're like, Hey, Claude, go build me a CRM. Claude's like, sure, I'll build you a CRM, but by the way, it'll cost you a million dollars because I have to take care of all the thousands of edge cases. You're like, no, no, no, no, n…”
Feb 27, 2026 bullish
Feb 27, 2026
Garg: Context graphs are built on multi-system processes, not single-vendor data
“Context graphs are not bound by system constraints. You're not going to build a context graph on top of your Salesforce data. You're going to build a context graph on top of your sales process. And every business process touches dozens of systems in a large co…”
Mar 19, 2026 positive
Agarwal: 20% stock drops after AI announcements force legacy SaaS into agents
“ServiceNow and Salesforce and Workday and all of these companies are being pushed to innovate. Like in other cases, they're like, we have large go to market motions. There's a revenue that we can easily protect and you don't have to, but because they see these…”
Apr 2, 2026 bullish
Apr 2, 2026
Jindal: Arize uses Cursor over BigQuery to eliminate internal data analysts
“Even in my current company all our systems data, like Salesforce, HubSpot, and everything even Gong data, we actually put into BigQuery, you know, every data, and then we have we have cursor sitting on top of BigQuery, and if anything I want, I just ask cursor…”
Apr 16, 2026 negative
May 20, 2026 negative
Koratana: Traditional SaaS records final outputs but loses decision context
“The key insight behind context graphs was that the last decade of SaaS basically has been built around this idea of a system of record, right? I think Salesforce is a good example, right? Probably the most, you know, central system of record, probably the most…”
Jul 24, 2026 neutral
Aug 22, 2026 bullish