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Ashu Garg: CIOs migrating ERPs without context graphs are failing their duties
“If you are the CIO organization in a Fortune hundred company, and you are thinking about an SAP or an Oracle migration, well, call one 800 Tessera, because if you are looking to drive a major, you know, system of record migration without exploring What, you kn…”
Big tech enterprise sales experience does not easily translate to startups
“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 at the end of the day, you know you have the backing …”
Gupta: I am fundamentally against tech employees moonlighting
“Let's say I'm against moonlighting. So, but that was a different kind of moonlighting, actually, where I had told my manager that I'm doing something, and I never let my work even in Oracle suffered for that particular thing.”
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…”
Ramdas: Lumber hired Oracle construction engineering leads and a former carpenter
“My sales guy started out as a carpenter in the industry. My co-founder, he was leading Oracle Construction Engineering. So, he was not from the industry, but he had built solutions for the industry. Our first few engineers all came from Oracle.”
Sahai: Platform and partner strategies maximize enterprise software stickiness
“How do you bring other capabilities through a platform strategy and then think about partners who can augment that? The more you do that, frankly, the more sticky you become, the harder you are to displace.”
Recko initially attempted to build a cheaper version of Oracle
“Initially, I think it was very unclear. I think our initial thought was to build maybe a cheaper version of Oracle. Because we thought that maybe that is the right shape of solution. But then I think very quickly we realized over say two or three months that y…”
Rayapati: Senior leadership tenure at Big Tech ranges from 7 to 15 years
“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.”
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.”