B2BaCEO (with Ashu Garg)

Nov 01 2024 56 ep. 37 mins 8
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B2B a CEO is the show about how to scale your enterprise startup and how to grow from founder to CEO. Hosted by Ashu Garg, general partner at Foundation Capital. Subscribe to the newsletter here: https://ashugarg.substack.com/

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How to Rewrite the Rules of 'Founder Mode' (Frank Slootman, Chairman, Board of Directors, Snowflake)

Nov 01 2024 51 mins  
After three successful CEO stints, Frank Slootman isn’t buying Silicon Valley’s fairytales about founders. In this episode, he turns the 'founder mode vs. manager mode’ debate on its head.

How to Adapt and Win in Enterprise Software (Aaron Levie, Co-Founder & CEO of Box)

Oct 11 2024 42 mins  
Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box, has guided the cloud content management platform from a dorm room project into a publicly traded company with over $1B in annual revenue. In his second appearance on B2BaCEO, Aaron reflects on his founder journey, sharing how Box capitalized on cloud computing and their recent push to integrate generative AI.

How to Build a Company Around Cutting-Edge AI (Srinath Sridhar, Founder of Regie.ai)

Jul 16 2024 32 mins  
In this episode, I talk with Srinath Sridhar, CEO & Cofounder of Regie.ai, who has always been ahead of the AI curve. Sri and his co-founder Matt Millen started Regie.ai in 2019 with the idea that GPT-3 would transform how all of us write emails. Today, Regie uses AI to automate sales prospecting for the enterprise. The company's Auto-Pilot automates most of the repetitive tasks

How to Build a Multi-Billion-Dollar Software Business (Mohit Aron, Founder of Cohesity)

Jun 14 2024 67 mins  
In this episode, I'm excited to welcome Mohit Aron back to B2BaCEO for the second time. As the founder of Cohesity and co-founder of Nutanix, Mohit is a titan in the world of enterprise GTM and infrastructure software. With two wildly successful companies under his belt, he's a true expert when it comes to building enterprise software businesses from the ground up. In our convers

How to Grow from Ph.D. to Two-Time Startup CEO (Sanjit Biswas, Co-Founder & CEO of Samsara)

May 03 2024 58 mins  
My guest today is Sanjit Biswas, the co-founder and CEO of Samsara, a platform that helps companies digitize their physical operations. In 2023, Samsara reached $1 billion in annual recurring revenue, making it one of the fastest startups in history to hit this milestone.

How to Win Your First Enterprise Customer (Doug Winter, Founder and CEO at Seismic)

Mar 29 2024 51 mins  
My guest today is Doug Winter, the founder and CEO of Seismic, a leading enterprise sales enablement platform. Today, Seismic has a team of 1,500 people and nearly $400 million in recurring revenue. We start the conversation with Doug explaining what sales enablement actually means. From there, we turn to the early days of Seismic and unpack Doug’s approach to finding product-ma

How to Shape the Future of AI (Naveen Rao, VP of Generative AI at Databricks)

Dec 22 2023 63 mins  
My guest this month is Naveen Rao, the co-founder of MosaicML and current head of Generative AI at Databricks. Naveen's journey is unique, as it echoes the evolution of AI itself. He’s best known for founding and selling two successful companies. The first, Nervana, an AI-focused chip company, was acquired by Intel for $400 million in 2016. The second, MosaicML, was acquired by

How to Power the AI Boom (Robert Nishihara, Co-Founder & CEO of Anyscale)

Nov 17 2023 45 mins  
In this episode of B2BaCEO, I speak with Robert Nishihara, co-founder and CEO of Anyscale. Anyscale’s aspiration is to build the fastest, most cost-efficient infrastructure for running LLMs and AI workloads. When it is successful, Anyscale will be to the AI era what Microsoft was for the PC era: the underlying operating system on which all AI applications are developed and run.

How to Build, Scale, and Sell a Startup (Tracy Young, Co-Founder of TigerEye & PlanGrid)

Sep 15 2023 48 mins  
My guest this month is Tracy Young, the co-founder and former CEO of PlanGrid, a productivity tool for construction companies. From going through YC and losing a co-founder to cancer, to being acquired by Autodesk for $875 million, Tracy has picked up many valuable lessons that other founders and CEOs can learn from. Our conversation unpacks these lessons, including finding (and k

How to Deploy AI in Your Company (Matei Zaharia, CTO & Co-Founder of Databricks)

Jun 02 2023 39 mins  
If you’re not hardcore about AI, then stop the podcast now — because this episode for real technology nerds. Ashu’s guest is Matei Zaharia, CTO and cofounder of Databricks, and a professor of computer science at Stanford University. Ashu and Matei cover a lot of ground — most of it technical, all of it very relevant for anyone who’s serious about building with artifici