Every week we feature conversations with the CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and technology leaders shaping enterprise technology, along with founders and executives at startups building the tools they rely on.
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Pega CEO Alan Trefler founded his company back in the 1980s when the enterprise world was very different than it is today, but he's been around long enough and seen enough shifts to speak with an authority that few others can when it comes to enterprise software. His
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I caught up with Jai Das, co-founder of Sapphire Ventures, in April at HumanX, the conference devoted to all things AI. He's been investing in enterprise startups for more than two decades, and while he recognizes that AI is transforming his business, he's not getting
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Abby Kearns has spent more than a decade in the open source world, starting at Pivotal before going on to lead the Cloud Foundry Foundation and later serving as CTO at Puppet. Today she is CEO at ActiveState, a company that focuses on keeping the open source software library supply
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Disclosure: I was paid by Zscaler to moderate a video interview with Zscaler executive Swamy Kocherlakota at the company's Zscaler Zenith Live 2026 earlier this month. The quotes from Jay Chaudhry come from two interviews, one in April and one in Las Vegas at the conference. Both were
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When Jay Kreps was working at LinkedIn in 2010, the industry was just beginning to grapple with what at the time was being called big data. How could you reliably move massive amounts of event data — user activity, system logs, operational metrics — between a growing number of internal systems in
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In 2024, Chen Goldberg left a prestigious role at Google as GM and VP of engineering for the Kubernetes and serverless portfolio after more than eight years at the company. It took a bold new challenge to compel her to make such a change, and she found it at neocloud
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Twilio was founded in 2008 to solve a telecom problem using software. If developers could tap into communications APIs, they could start creating software that disrupted the biggest telecommunications companies by putting previously expensive and rare capabilities into the hands of just about anyone who knew how to code. With
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Even if we never reach the mythological one-person $1 billion startup, it's clear that AI coding tools have helped accelerate the software development process, making that part of startup building faster, cheaper and more efficient than ever before. But just because you can code faster, doesn'
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Last week at HumanX, I heard a lot about AI, some hype, and some more practical, but however it's presented, it's undeniable that AI is driving changes across every company and industry. I spoke to PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada, who told me how it’s forcing
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CrowdStrike's Elia Zaitsev spent a decade at the company before being promoted to CTO in 2023, just months after ChatGPT's debut. It was a pivotal moment for his career and for the broader technology landscape. He understood the magnitude of the shift and how generative AI
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When you think about a company the size of Amazon, the idea of one person being responsible for everything from the locks on the doors to cybersecurity and employee safety might seem absurd. Yet that's exactly what the company decided to do. That person is CJ Moses, who
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Cassie Crossley has literally written the book on software supply chain security. She was previously VP of supply chain security at Schneider Electric and is currently CEO and co-founder at a stealth AI cybersecurity startup. She understands supply chain risk as well as anyone, and she believes that AI-