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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Oracle comes up
Who Owns Your Data Now? Agents vs. Systems of Record on The Agents #013
- ▶ 1:22 Jason Lemkin And a lot of folks think that one of the islands of stability is being a system of record, an SAP, an Oracle, a Salesforce, or a vertical system of record.
The Agents #12 - Our AI Agent Rewrote Our App Without Telling Us
- ▶ 51:43 Jason Lemkin At least Monaco has a team on this, and Artisan, and maybe Monaco, and Artisans, and Lightfields, and Oracel's teams are not as large as OpenAI, but at least they have a team.
Our Agent Negotiated a Vendor Renewal, Became a CFO and a Better SDR .. but has too many guardrails
- ▶ 55:48 Jason Lemkin It was having some fun writing these to Auracel and some others, these renewal emails, but they were really, really good too. 2 times in the scene
Why Your Next Hire Should Report to an AI, Tragedy Apps, and Too Many AI SDRs? | The Agents #004
- ▶ 1:03:53 Jason Lemkin Unlike most marketers who shoot from the hip or talk about what they did in the, in the, in the nineties at their last beat, but they talked about whether they did Epiphany or Oracle, it will come with data.
AI and the Death of the 2021 Sales Playbook with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 34:12 Jason Lemkin So the rate at which that this is where I think it's not that we're going to rebuild workday in Salesforce and Oracle, but our competitive edges are going to be measured in months.
What’s Working Now: AI’s Real Impact on Sales with SaaStr's CEO and Co-Founder, and SVP & GM
- ▶ 14:05 Amelia LeRutte They might be employee number 10 at Oracle who doesn't know all the history and context of Saster and Oracle.
AI and Cybersecurity: Scaling Rubrik to a Billion Dollar Enterprise with Rubrik's Co-Founder and CTO
- ▶ 10:36 Arvind Nithrakashyap They had this huge Oracle database.
- ▶ 12:58 Arvind Nithrakashyap If you think of an average customer, they're using the rubric platform to protect their data that could be sitting in the data center, could be a VM, could be an Oracle database.
Snowflake's CEO on the AI Data Cloud, Partner Strategy, and What’s Next
- ▶ 2:50 Jason Lemkin I mean, you were EVP at Oracle, president at Symantec, ran half of EMC.
- ▶ 30:24 Jeremy Burton Like I used to play soccer with Thierry at Oracle.
AI, M&A, and the Future of SaaS: Lessons from Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO, Co-Founder and Chair
- ▶ 0:14 Marc Benioff I created this V-to-mom process when I was at Oracle and have used that to guide Salesforce for many years.
- ▶ 19:57 Marc Benioff I created this V-to-mom process when I was at Oracle, and I've used that to guide Salesforce for many years.
HubSpot Co-Founder and Chair Brian Halligan on AI and SaaS, Board Meetings, and When Incumbents Win
- ▶ 2:36 Brian Halligan Oracle, you gotta take your hat off to them. 5 times in the scene
From Outbound to Channel Partnerships: Your Burning Sales Questions Answered by Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 35:02 Jason Lemkin If you ever find a, a 10 X engineer, a five, hire her, hire her because she will build that feature, that integration, that thing that, that Google wants or Oracle wants.
How to Leverage Pricing and Packaging to Drive Revenue with Miro, Loom, OpenAI, and Splunk
- ▶ 23:06 Karsten Holm Splunk may be one of the more elastic enterprise products than others, but you're not going to wake up one more, one day and say, oh, let's buy a bunch of Oracle today.
What Really Matters in SaaS in 2025 with Jason Lemkin and Dave Kellogg
- ▶ 41:09 Dave Kellogg How does Oracle price price on the same model?
The Future of AI in Sales with Gong’s CEO and Co-Founder Amit Bendov
- ▶ 14:36 Amit Bendov The first was the on-prem enterprise like Siebel, PeopleSoft, Oracle,
Ben Chestnut: The Top 10 Learnings Scaling Mailchimp to $1B ARR
- ▶ 18:16 Jason Lemkin I mean, let's look at Oracle and companies. 3 times in the scene
The 7 Biggest Mistakes CMOs Make (And How to Avoid Them) with the CMOs of Databricks, Zoom, and Okta
- ▶ 0:11 Carrie-Lou Dietrich Today I'm here with Rick Schultz, a former colleague of mine at Oracle and the current CMO of Databricks.
- ▶ 10:34 Carrie-Lou Dietrich And again, I said before, Rick and I met when we were at Oracle.
What's New at Box with Aaron Levie, CEO and Co-Founder of Box and Jason Lemkin, Founder at SaaStr
- ▶ 14:25 Aaron Levie And, you know, Oracle did it, and Adobe did it, and Autodesk did it, 3 times in the scene
Hitting Hypergrowth with Amplitude's CEO, Spenser Skates: Take Your SaaS Company from $25M to $100M+
- ▶ 25:22 Spenser Skates But even it was hard for him, too, because he had so much loyalty to, to the folks that helped build, uh, the company and helped build Oracle, but he knew it was different for the next stage.
10 Things Top CROs Wish They Knew Early in Our Careers with CRO Justworks
- ▶ 25:40 Brendon Cassidy And oftentimes hiring the resume and saying, oh, this guy was at Salesforce or this one, this person was at Oracle or whatever it is.
- ▶ 40:20 unnamed speaker Um, he, he's at a, a big enterprise company calling on the oracles, but we worked together at an incubator and he built a sales team from scratch and he knows SaaS sales.
SaaStr APAC AMA with Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO
- ▶ 15:45 Jason Lemkin Oracle.
Scaling a SaaS Sales Team While Building Culture with Figma's VP of Sales, Scott Pugh
- ▶ 5:45 Scott Pugh Salesforce with Oracle.
The Secrets to Scaling with HubSpot's Founders Dharmesh Shah and Brian Halligan and SaaStr's CEO
- ▶ 4:47 Brian Halligan You just start acquiring businesses and you cobble together this mess of the CRM, Oracle, et cetera.
CEO Systems: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling at Every Growth Phase with HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet
- ▶ 7:46 Dave McJannet They then set out to find the people, and they actually went and hired the team from Oracle to build the original relational, or sort of analytic data warehouse for Oracle, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:49 Dave McJannet If I were to envision what the employee experience is like at something like Oracle, I can imagine what their, uh, you know, employee expense reporting system is.
Scaling Revenue Today: What’s the Same and What's Different? | Confluent President Erica Schultz
- ▶ 0:44 Erica Schultz I spent the first almost 17 years of my career at Oracle Corporation, where I started as an SDR.
Optimizing GTM for PLG with Stage 2 Capital Co-Founder and Managing Director Mark Roberge
- ▶ 0:27 Mark Roberge We have like the CRL, the CML, the CCO, from most of the cloud, 100, from Snowflake, to Asana, to Atlassian, to Salesforce, to Oracle, to SAP.
The Answers To Scaling, Hiring, And Everything Else: An AMA With Saastr Founder & Ceo Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 15:52 Jason Lemkin You need your CRM, you need your ERP, you need your human capital management, like these, these are categories of software that have existed for 30 or 40 years for a reason, and you could mock Salesforce or Oracle or Workday or these, but…
The Path to a Billion Dollars: How to Create Multi-Revenue Streams with Bill.com CRO Tom Clayton
- ▶ 22:23 Tom Clayton Oracle later bought it for like eight and a half billion after it dropped from a 20 plus billion dollar market cap when the dot com boom crashed. 3 times in the scene
Lessons Learned Building a $2 Billion Company from Scratch with Neo4j CEO & Co-Founder Emil Eifrem
- ▶ 27:39 Emil Eifrem So Oracle was built on the shift from mainframe to client server, right?
Scaling Your Startup 10x From $20M to $200M with Sapphire, Lightspeed, TripActions, and 6Sense
- ▶ 12:41 Carlos Delatorre So at MongoDB, the sales team, um, Oracle people did really poorly for the most part. 2 times in the scene
Picking the Perfect Pricing Model that Fits Your App and More with HackerOne's CEO Marten Mickos
- ▶ 15:09 Mårten Mickos I was involved in this when I was CEO of MySQL, and we competed against Oracle. 3 times in the scene
$100 Million ARR Pivot: From Platform Product to Vertical Apps With Treasure Data CEO Kazuki Ohta
- ▶ 43:33 Kazuki Ohta Working for large companies like Adobe, Salesforce, and Oracle selling marketing tech products to the large enterprise, right?
Brian Halligan, CEO and Co-Founder at HubSpot: The Secrets to $1B ARR ... And Beyond!
- ▶ 32:21 Brian Halligan The freemium product, like we think of ourselves, we want to, the thing that's different about HubSpot than Salesforce or Adobe or, uh, Microsoft or Oracle, all the other CRMs.
How to Market at Mass Scale | Harry Stebbings, The Twenty Minute VC & Whereby CMO Ryan Bonnici
- ▶ 16:12 Ryan Bonnici You know, it worked for Salesforce against Oracle with the no software.
The Twists and Turns Along the Way to Building a Unicorn with Salesloft's CEO Kyle Porter
- ▶ 17:00 Kyle Porter And that's important because if you use the MailChimp or the, you know, part on Eloqua Marketo, that's a transactional email server that's picked up transactionally.
How To Collaborate, Manage & Work With Developers With Jeff Lawson, CEO Twilio
- ▶ 31:21 Jeff Lawson I'm from Detroit originally, so like the auto, you know, you think about the auto industry and the mature supply chain they have there, and, you know, 20 years ago, the software industry was a very small number of companies, and you think…
How to Hire a Great First VP of Sales
- ▶ 17:55 Jason Lemkin And we know that the odds of a big company guy coming from a five or, we know that the Oracle VP doesn't work. 2 times in the scene
On Launching a Second Product with Dharmesh Shah, CTO / Co-Founder HubSpot
- ▶ 18:41 Jason Lemkin This is an Oracle concept of like, we're going to jam every product and why would I want a sweet, right?
Taking Care Of Your Team and Your Customers with Slack | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 10:18 Stewart Butterfield Uh, like Oracle had through acquisitions maybe a thousand or 2000 people using Slack, and in 15 months we took it to a 100,000 people wall to wall.
Lessons from Hired CEO: How to Move from Transactional to Recurring Revenue
- ▶ 18:18 Mehul Patel Uh, product marketing, uh, uh, executive out of Oracle.
Founder Confidential: The Top Things No One Really Tells You About Scaling
- ▶ 16:34 Jennifer Tejada If we tried to bring in kind of the Oracle, Splunk, elephant hunting motion, it didn't work for the way our, our users who tended to be developers wanted to engage with our product, and so we really had to build our own, our own model, and…
The Current State of Venture Capital and Cloud | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 1:38 Jason Lemkin He did Eloqua, which you'd have to be an OG SaaS person to remember that was acquired for a billion for Oracle.
"5 Dos and Dont's Lessons From My Bootstrapping Days" Wrike Founder and CEO Andrew Filev
- ▶ 18:40 Andrew Filev So, uh, it's not about overpowering, and you definitely cannot overpower Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, Google, what have you, right?
From Freemium to Enterprise with Slack
- ▶ 1:11 Kevin Egan Uh, I joined Oracle in 1995. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:35 Danny Herzberg So we need to hire the kind of sales professional who hasn't necessarily sold at, um, Oracle for 20 years.
- ▶ 26:18 Kevin Egan Ah, Oracle is a customer that's reaching about 90,000 active users.
Lessons from New Relic: Five Critical Steps to Scaling Enterprise
- ▶ 9:37 Erica Schultz Um, my own experience, I spent 17 years at Oracle Corporation, and it was a wonderful place to learn about serving the enterprise, um, and about running organizations at scale. 3 times in the scene
The Road to Building a 100 Year Company
- ▶ 31:27 Sanjay Beri They built it using your traditional Oracle or whatever database, and then one day realized they're spending too much money and tried to get rid of it.
Busting the Myths About Startup Success with Blackline's Founder-CEO
- ▶ 6:29 Therese Tucker I mean, when you have, when you start a company, do you ever ask yourself, why didn't IBM or Google or Oracle do this?
The Secrets of Net Negative Churn: Customer Advocacy
- ▶ 1:37 Nick Mehta Uh, Catherine is Global Vice President at Oracle Marketing Cloud, which is very exciting, and you've been at big companies, been at Salesforce before, been at small companies as well. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:46 Nick Mehta What's one unique thing about Oracle's approach to customer success that we're gonna hear about today to kind of get people thinking?
- ▶ 5:32 Nick Mehta I'm going to ask each panelist to talk about how you think about structuring your organization, and we're going to go from a big company like Oracle to a smaller company like WalkMe. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:18 Catherine Blackmore Now, flash forward, certainly five companies together now forming the Oracle Marketing Cloud, if you think about that change management initiative, we actually started with our promise to our customers before we thought about the roles we…
Sales Mistakes that Can Kill Your SaaS Business & How to Avoid Them
- ▶ 10:16 Mark Roberge I think when you're two engineering-based founders bringing in that first salesperson, geez, that guy showed up at Oracle or Salesforce or wherever it was.
How to Break Out and Really Scale
- ▶ 25:27 Ajay Agarwal You know, do you now have salespeople with more of the traditional, you know, Oracle, Salesforce kind of backgrounds?
Aaron Levie (Box): The First $250m in ARR
- ▶ 24:56 Aaron Levie Like, like, you know, IBM's got that for us. 2 times in the scene