VMware
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6 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Nov 17, 2020 by Jay Vijayan · said 47 times in 12 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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2026 26 mentions in 5 episodes 5 per episode
- After $9B IPO This Founder is Rebuilding Internet for Agents | Sudheesh Nair, Thoughtspot, Nutanix
- Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
- The "Kiss of Death" That Kills 90% of Startups | Nikhil Gupta, ArmorCode
- Slow Teams Lose PMF in 90 Days | Krishna M, Elevation Capital
- How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)
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2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 4 mentions in 1 episode
2020 14 mentions in 3 episodes 5 per episode
- What made Elon Musk approach former Tesla CIO Jay Vijayan twice in 12 months?
- Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital on Technical insights and building a fund for Engineers
- Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Director, Nexus VP on the success recipe of Druva and Postman
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
Everything said about VMware, oldest first
Nov 17, 2020 neutral
Vijayan: Left VMware for Tesla taking an almost $100,000 base pay cut
“Still, I had to take a pay cut purely in a salary and bonus, because VMware had been a really solid salary and great bonus. And that really stopped almost 100,000 dollars just purely from salary cut perspective. And then on top of it, I had to leave stocks bec…”
Nov 17, 2020
Vijayan's team built Tesla's core ERP system in just three months
“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…”
Nov 17, 2020
Vijayan: VMware spent hundreds of millions of dollars on Oracle ERP
“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.”
Jul 4, 2022 neutral
Pandey: Nutanix originally assumed its product would run on VMware
“Our first thesis was that this product will work on top of VMware, and it was a wrong assumption because they were not ready for something as sort of demanding as our software running on top of it. Nobody had run what we were running on top of VMware.”
Apr 16, 2026 positive