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The "Kiss of Death" That Kills 90% of Startups | Nikhil Gupta, ArmorCode Sep 8, 2026 · 5 mentions

Slow Teams Lose PMF in 90 Days | Krishna M, Elevation Capital Aug 22, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 45:45 Krishna Mehra But when you look at it, um, you know, let's say the company started with focus on VMware, SQL Server, 3 times in the scene

How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B) May 10, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:08 Poojan Kumar Yeah, this was already, I think, you know, about, you know, 10 years at Oracle and couple years at VMware also back then. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:20 Poojan Kumar You know, in Burnix, I had a data center in my own office, right, you know, and stuff like that, because obviously I had to test out all the storage, and I had, you know, VMware servers, and all that stuff.

After $9B IPO This Founder is Rebuilding Internet for Agents | Sudheesh Nair, Thoughtspot, Nutanix Apr 16, 2026 · 9 mentions

Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital Mar 26, 2026 · 6 mentions

The Founder Who Mastered Timing Ft Sachin Aggarwal | StackGen Nov 12, 2025 · 1 mention

What is Tesla’s Former CIO Building Next? 4 Years Stealth → $4B Company | Jay Vijayan, Tekion Oct 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:00:21 Jay Vijayan I tried to tell my team because many times people get worked up very quickly about problems, and I tell them again and again, you know, I'm fortunate to be working at VMware at the right time, fortunate to be, you know, part of Tesla at…

Selling His Company To A US Public Company (Nutanix) And Now Building Atomicwork, Vijay Rayapati Sep 1, 2023 · 1 mention

Building Product That Sells Itself Ft. Dheeraj Pandey, CEO-DevRev, Co-Founder-Nutanix Jul 4, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 52:56 Dheeraj Pandey I mean, as I said, you know, 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. 4 times in the scene

What made Elon Musk approach former Tesla CIO Jay Vijayan twice in 12 months? Nov 17, 2020 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 2:39 Jay Vijayan And I had a phenomenal journey in, um, VMware, right from IPO to its growth period. 2 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. 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…
  • ▶ 1:02:35 Siddhartha Ahluwalia That, uh, when you were in VMware and you were first approved by a senior recruiter at Tesla, you, you almost made up your mind, and then it took one year, like, Elon talked to you, and then it took one year for Elon to convince you to… 4 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.

Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Director, Nexus VP on the success recipe of Druva and Postman Oct 26, 2020 · 1 mention

Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital on Technical insights and building a fund for Engineers Aug 16, 2020 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:56 Siddhartha Ahluwalia He then worked at VMware where he was in charge of product management for the company product ESX server. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 0:56 Siddhartha Ahluwalia He then worked at VMware where he was in charge of product management for the company product ESX server.
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