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Gabe Monroy

Chief Technology Officer, Workday · 1 appearance on the record.

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Monroy co-founded the open-source container startup Deis and co-launched Azure Kubernetes Service at Microsoft. Prior to becoming CTO at Workday, he served as Chief Product Officer at DigitalOcean and Vice President of Developer Experience and Cloud Runtimes at Google Cloud.

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2 assertions · 3 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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What the tape says about how Gabe argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Monroy: Azure Kubernetes Service was Azure's fastest-growing compute service ever
“At Microsoft, I started Azure's Kubernetes service, which is the fastest growing service compute service in Azure's history.”
Gabe Monroy Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 1:14 Why You Want to Develop Product Painkillers, Not Vitamins | DigitalOcean CPO Gabe Monroy

Everything Gabe Monroy said on the Official SaaStr Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Monroy: Building what customers ask for often yields zero impact
“You listen to customers, you build what they claim that they want, and there's actually no impact on the other side of that.”
Gabe Monroy Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 6:06 Why You Want to Develop Product Painkillers, Not Vitamins | DigitalOcean CPO Gabe Monroy
Insight
Monroy: Products do not need to be painkillers to generate big revenue
“Not every product must be a painkiller to be successful. Candy sells really well. A good example of this is gaming, right? Video games, mobile games on your phone. That's candy, right? It's giving you a quick dopamine hit. Like, you can make a lot of money sel…”
Gabe Monroy Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 9:33 Why You Want to Develop Product Painkillers, Not Vitamins | DigitalOcean CPO Gabe Monroy
Insight
Monroy: Teams must validate designs with customers before writing code
“To understand if you are building candy vitamins or painkillers, you need to take a design first approach where you're out, engaged in market, talking with customers, ideally before you write a line of code.”
Gabe Monroy Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 14:25 Why You Want to Develop Product Painkillers, Not Vitamins | DigitalOcean CPO Gabe Monroy
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Monroy: Azure Container Service initially failed to deliver reliable cluster upgrades
“Customers wanted to hire ACS to upgrade their clusters. They wanted to hire ACS to provide reliability, a reliable infrastructure for them. We weren't fulfilling the job to be done that they had brought to the table, and that was a big problem.”
Gabe Monroy Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 21:18 Why You Want to Develop Product Painkillers, Not Vitamins | DigitalOcean CPO Gabe Monroy
Assertion Supported
Monroy: Azure Kubernetes Service was Azure's fastest-growing compute service ever
“At Microsoft, I started Azure's Kubernetes service, which is the fastest growing service compute service in Azure's history.”
Gabe Monroy Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 1:14 Why You Want to Develop Product Painkillers, Not Vitamins | DigitalOcean CPO Gabe Monroy
Disclosure
Monroy: OpDemand suffered from misaligned UI, marketing, and sales positioning
“Now the problem that we had with OptiMand was we were failing to communicate what we were offering. The UI was candy. The marketing made it feel like a vitamin. AWS made easy is, you know indicative of something that's a nice to nice to have, not a must have, …”
Gabe Monroy Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 9:58 Why You Want to Develop Product Painkillers, Not Vitamins | DigitalOcean CPO Gabe Monroy
Disclosure
Monroy: OpDemand spent $1M delivering an MVP before getting feedback
“Think about that MVP that we built at OpDemand, right? That cost me about a million bucks to go deliver that. Million dollars. I didn't really have meaningful product feedback until after I had shipped an MVP that cost me a million bucks.”
Gabe Monroy Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 16:45 Why You Want to Develop Product Painkillers, Not Vitamins | DigitalOcean CPO Gabe Monroy

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Why You Want to Develop Product Painkillers, Not Vitamins | DigitalOcean CPO Gabe Monroy Feb 9, 2023 24m
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