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Ghosh: LLMs Will Disrupt Massive Observability and Security Markets
“So, in the observability area of the site observability. Similarly, for security observability, I think there is a massive area SIEM. I would say these are backward facing categories which are massive TAM which will be impacted by LLMs and by using Gen AI.”
Bhaskar Ghosh Nov 21, 2025 ▶ 1:01:23 How AI Will Disrupt India’s IT Services Industry And Its 1.5M Engineers/Year | Bhaskar Ghosh, 8VC
Opinion
Ghosh: IT Teams Will Ditch Datadog and Splunk for Cheaper Alternatives
“There are two pieces of software that people always complain about from the IT side, and the op, and the IT ops side, and the data ops side, site ops side, SRE side, but they still pay, but they will absolutely switch if something cheaper comes. One is called …”
Bhaskar Ghosh Nov 21, 2025 ▶ 51:27 How AI Will Disrupt India’s IT Services Industry And Its 1.5M Engineers/Year | Bhaskar Ghosh, 8VC
Insight
Jindal: Never leave a winning startup over a bad manager
“Never leave a company you believe in for like, you know, these kinds of reasons, you know, you have to stick it out because things change really fast. And one thing doesn't change is like, you know, the trajectory of the company, like if you are an interest co…”
Manish Jindal Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 9:21 Why "Boring" Infrastructure is the Best Path to a $60B Company | Manish Jindal, Cloudflare & Arize
Assertion Supported
Sidana: SignalFx sold for $1B and founder chose Engineering Capital again
“SignalFX was acquired for one billion by Splunk. He then started Trastero. He gave me the honor of being the first investor in Trastero after I was the first investor in SignalFX.”
Ashmeet Sidana Mar 26, 2026 ▶ 24:32 Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
Assertion Supported
Sidana: Splunk Acquired Cloud Monitoring Startup SignalFx for Over $1 Billion
“And that is the problem that SignalFX solved, and then of course, Phil Liu and Karthik, who were the founders of SignalFX, built a wonderful business on the back of that, that that Splunk was happy to acquire for over a billion dollars.”
Ashmeet Sidana Aug 16, 2020 ▶ 7:59 Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital on Technical insights and building a fund for Engineers
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