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Dheeraj Pandey claims no AI company currently has true multi-tenant architecture
“There is no AI company that's multi-tenant right now. There is no AI company that's multi-tenant.”
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Salesforce and ServiceNow will resist the MCP movement to protect UI engagement
“We don't just depend on Salesforce's MCP or ServiceNow's MCP. Which, by the way, they won't be very good at. I can tell you that because they don't want to be a data-only company. These large incumbents, they don't want to be a data-only company. They would ra…”
Opinion
Gong is 'in tatters' because narrow point solutions cannot reach multi-billion scale
“A use case is a focus, but when you look at Gong, for example, it's in tatters. Like, hey, we're just going to do a 10, 15,000 dollar thing, and we just created a two, three hundred million dollar business. But unless you can make a few billion dollars on your…”
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AI workplace transformation is a 20-year journey, not an extinction event
“I feel like this is a 20, 3040 year journey, and there'll be new jobs for humans, because simply because we evolve faster, and we need to create history for the LLMs to copy from, you know, because they are basically caricatures, and of course, they do have em…”
Insight
Framing AI agents as the future and apps as the past is mistaken
“It's very similar to what's happening right now with apps and agents. How do you bring apps and agents together as opposed to just talk about the future, which is agents, and the past, which is apps. You know, there was a time when SQL was being looked at in t…”
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Snowden leaks accelerated VDI demand and created Nutanix's killer use case
“And after Snowden, basically, There was a big push towards virtualizing desktops. Like, okay, no machine leaves the premises. Everything is actually on the inside, and it became a great use case for us to say, let's virtualize the windows, desktops, in an envi…”
Opinion
SaaS companies moved software to the cloud without solving data integration
“A lot of these SaaS companies are built in silos. They just changed physics, which has location from on-prem to SaaS. That's all they did in those 20 years. But nobody did the chemistry.”
Insight
Enterprise knowledge graphs cannot be effective without structured SQL support
“Without SQL, you can't say you have a great knowledge graph.”
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Fixed chat channels will wither away as AI teammates take over collaboration
“I think in the new world, collaboration will be with agents who are not over eager to chime in and button for every question. They know everything, but they also have extreme EQ to know when to answer and what to answer and so on. And so we feel like it's head…”
Insight
AI agents virtualize human roles just as VMs virtualized hardware
“It's what we're doing right now with agents is basically a virtual human role. It's like we're trying to virtualize human agency through these AI agents.”
Insight
Apple iOS and AWS both succeeded by converging disparate tools
“IOS removed a lot of gadgets, and AWS removed a lot of gadgets. They just left shifted all that and said, look, you don't have to worry about going to 10 different vendors to spin up an app.”
Insight
Public cloud's success relied as much on commerce as open source
“And that actually was one of the big things, like, you know, in consumption, you've got to really respect commerce and the way you meter and bill and invoice every month and all this stuff was, I think public cloud was as much about commerce as it was about op…”
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Nutanix maintained 90 NPS by building internal tools, shunning Salesforce
“We had a great net promoter score of 90 for the longest time, yet we had not used Salesforce Service Cloud as a way to really front end our customers with someone else's support software. We said we're going to build our own, so we built our own portal and our…”
Insight
Most SaaS applications are just work management tools under different names
“Look, most SaaS tools Our work management tools. We just happen to call them by different names. The work for sales is called opportunity. Work for marketing is called campaigns. Work for support is called tickets. Work for ops is called incidents and work for…”
Insight
Large enterprises buy vendor visions and operating systems, not individual features
“Most of the large enterprises, they don't buy features. They buy into a vision, and they want to start with the use case, because it's too much for them to have so many vendors. A large enterprise buys operating systems at scale.”
Insight
Fast-growing startups must generate up to 50% of revenue from existing customers
“And as a younger company, if you're growing 50, 6000% year over year, at least 30 to 40 to 50% of your current quarter business Should come from existing customers. And a proxy for that is net dollar based expansion. So if your net dollar based expansion is up…”
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Nutanix survived at least two near-death experiences in its first five years
“I think at Nutanix, we really took upon things that we never understood, like hardware, when we were software guys, pure software guys. And two times at least out in this first five years, we felt like we have a near-death experience. And even VMware didn't wo…”
