Arvind Nithrakashyap

Co-founder & CTO, Rubrik · 1 appearance on the record.

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Prior to co-founding Rubrik in 2014, Arvind Nithrakashyap co-founded the Exadata storage platform at Oracle and led infrastructure engineering at Rocket Fuel. At Rubrik, he oversees technical innovation, architecture, and engineering for its cyber resilience platform.

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Nithrakashyap: Ignore startup advice to say no; say yes to everything

“I know there's this advice that say no to a 95%. I don't believe in that. I think you have to say yes to yes to everything, right? Because if you lose, if you miss a large fortune, 500 customer, it may be a hundred K deal down the road. That's a 20, 30 X lifet…”

Arvind Nithrakashyap Jun 25, 2025 ▶ 8:24 AI and Cybersecurity: Scaling Rubrik to a Billion Dollar Enterprise with Rubrik's Co-Founder and CTO

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Nithrakashyap: New enterprise products need dedicated incubation sales teams, not core reps

“So the way it works is when you're starting a new product, typically if it's a new buyer, It's hard for a large core sales team to go and do that because they're selling, they're used to selling in a certain way. And then how does it fit into the new product? …”

Arvind Nithrakashyap Jun 25, 2025 ▶ 6:08 AI and Cybersecurity: Scaling Rubrik to a Billion Dollar Enterprise with Rubrik's Co-Founder and CTO

Insight

Nithrakashyap: Enterprise AI Effort Centers on Data Access, Not Model Training

“Most of the time is not spending, it's not spent in foundation models, nobody's training models. The work is in, okay, how do I get access to the data that I need to solve this particular use case?”

Arvind Nithrakashyap Jun 25, 2025 ▶ 14:30 AI and Cybersecurity: Scaling Rubrik to a Billion Dollar Enterprise with Rubrik's Co-Founder and CTO

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Nithrakashyap: About 80% of AI Proofs of Concept Fail to Reach Production

“Almost like we've heard, like, 80% of AI POCs don't make it to production.”

Arvind Nithrakashyap Jun 25, 2025 ▶ 15:02 AI and Cybersecurity: Scaling Rubrik to a Billion Dollar Enterprise with Rubrik's Co-Founder and CTO

Disclosure

Nithrakashyap: Rubrik is pushing all engineers to code with AI

“Definitely in, on, on coding, we are seeing some potential, huge potential gains that we see. So we are really pushing everybody to start using AI for their coding.”

Arvind Nithrakashyap Jun 25, 2025 ▶ 19:11 AI and Cybersecurity: Scaling Rubrik to a Billion Dollar Enterprise with Rubrik's Co-Founder and CTO

Insight

Rubrik CTO: AI Code Generation Metrics Are Irrelevant Without Business Impact

“I can do a hundred percent AI code if that is not, if we don't meet those business metrics, it makes no difference to the business. So at the end of the day, I think you have to wear the business hat, whether you're in R&D or go to market, it doesn't matter. Y…”

Arvind Nithrakashyap Jun 25, 2025 ▶ 22:40 AI and Cybersecurity: Scaling Rubrik to a Billion Dollar Enterprise with Rubrik's Co-Founder and CTO

Disclosure

Nithrakashyap: Most Rubrik products originated as hackathon projects

“A lot of the new products that we sell today in our portfolio all started with the hackathon project. We've been running hackathons since we just finished our 10th hackathon last year. So we've been doing it from our, from year two of the company.”

Arvind Nithrakashyap Jun 25, 2025 ▶ 4:20 AI and Cybersecurity: Scaling Rubrik to a Billion Dollar Enterprise with Rubrik's Co-Founder and CTO

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AI and Cybersecurity: Scaling Rubrik to a Billion Dollar Enterprise with Rubrik's Co-Found	Jun 25, 2025	16m

Arvind Nithrakashyap

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