Palo Alto Networks

“So, twice a week, I run this meeting called AIAIO. It's like the old McDonald had a form. It's just not EIA, it's like AIAIO, ok? We get the top 24 technical people on a call every two days for two hours in the morning. And they walk through what they're worki…”

“The biggest mistake that people make during acquisitions is underestimate the intelligence of the people who built the business that you acquired. Because sometimes you take on the imperialistic attitude. I bought you, hence you must work for me.”

“AI can be great at 80% use cases. We live in the .1% use case. We're looking for the needle in the haystack. AI is not good at looking at the, for every needle in the haystack.”

“We infuse those AI native people into teams and say, keep hiring until you get to make sure that these people are more people in that team than people who've been there before. So once you start overwhelming these teams with more AI native people, you start wa…”

“Our general counsel I hired off of LinkedIn.”

“We bought four D-plus companies in the last eight years”

“So I sat back on a week and I wrote down something called my belief document, which basically describes why I do certain things a certain way, what I believe.”

“So, we declared the Sasacalypse for cybersecurity was over. We did not believe that we were going to get impacted, and you can see now that was six months ago, and we seem to be having a moment.”

“I'd never done cybersecurity in my life. This is a cybersecurity company. I've never been a public company CEO. This is a public company CEO job. And I'd never sold enterprise. I was a consumer guy.”

“So this morning, actually, as part of Black Hat, we launched a capability Which allows us to deliver patches in four hours and deploy them to every one of our customers, which is huge from 55 days to four hours.”