Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: James Markarian, CTO of SnapLogic (Part 4)

The layer down from that is the data layer. Instead of talking about the fact that I have employees here and there, I want to look at specific data elements and really understand. Based on the cardinality of the data and the pattern distributions, I want to build

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: James Markarian, CTO of SnapLogic (Part 3)

James Markarian: The goal with automating integration is to eliminate the latency in the conception of what you’d like for the business to the actual implementation. You can go from the idea of what you’re trying to achieve to the actual execution. That’s what is very attractive to our customers – removing that latency. What we

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: James Markarian, CTO of SnapLogic (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Can you take us through some use cases on what AI is able to do to the customer issues that you’re dealing with? James Markarian: We’re a horizontal technology. In the integration world, you start out connecting one thing to another. By the nature of the fact that we are a cloud technology,

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: James Markarian, CTO of SnapLogic (Part 1)

A view into AI in the context of integration. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and SnapLogic. James Markarian: I’m the CTO at SnapLogic. I’ve had a very unusual career in the Valley. In about 30 years, I’ve only had three jobs. I was at Oracle for a number of years

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Achieving Product-Market Fit That Allows You to Build Billion Dollar Unicorns: Gaurav Dhillon, Founder of Informatica and SnapLogic (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Help me rationalize what’s happening right now in the market regarding late-stage valuation bubbles. We have two kinds of bubbles in the startup venture world. One is in the seed capital. In 2013, 70,000 companies were angel-financed. That’s too much actually. It’s great that they got angel-funded, but then if you look at

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Achieving Product-Market Fit That Allows You to Build Billion Dollar Unicorns: Gaurav Dhillon, Founder of Informatica and SnapLogic (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: This time around, are there any surprises in the product market fit process? You repeated the same process, I imagine. Gaurav Dhillon: The same thing but with a twist. With Informatica, the timing was spot on. The change was happening in a big way. Year 2000 was coming. From the time we raised venture

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Achieving Product-Market Fit That Allows You to Build Billion Dollar Unicorns: Gaurav Dhillon, Founder of Informatica and SnapLogic (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: The story is very different for a Dave Duffield starting Workday or a Gaurav Dhillon starting SnapLogic, because most of the people who are starting companies without that kind of track record do not have the options that you have. They have to figure out some way to navigate that early cash issue. Gaurav

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Achieving Product-Market Fit That Allows You to Build Billion Dollar Unicorns: Gaurav Dhillon, Founder of Informatica and SnapLogic (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: 156 customer calls that you made gave you real conversations about real customer problems. Even though you didn’t sell what you went out to sell, this was a great opportunity to immerse yourself in customers and learn what they were really looking for. Gaurav Dhillon: This is AB testing to the power of

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