Podcasts by B2BaCEO (with Ashu Garg)

How to Go from Engineer to CEO (Jyoti Bansal, Founder/CEO of AppDynamics) from 2023-12-14T10:11:30.241012

Jyoti Bansal’s AppDynamics recently sold to Cisco for $3.8 billion. As a first-time sole founder and CEO from a tech background, Jyoti tells me what he learned about the business side of things....

How to Hire and Fire (Burton Goldfield, CEO of TriNet) from 2023-12-14T10:11:30.223484

Burton Goldfield tells me his CEO strategy: know the results you want and build your company towards achieving them.

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TriNet goes public

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How to Manage Through Influence (Kevin Johnson, CEO of Udemy) from 2023-12-14T10:11:30.218273

Kevin Johnson led two companies in very different stages of growth. Here’s how he did it and what he looks for in new hires.

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Ratuken buys Ebates

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How to Get Through the Covid-19 Crisis (Various) from 2023-12-14T10:11:30.201790

This special episode of the podcast is part oral history of when the plague came to Silicon Valley and part anthology of advice for startups dealing with the fallout of Covid-19. Five CEOs and one ...

How to Sell Yourself, Your Startup, and Your Product (Edith Harbaugh, CEO&CoFounder of LaunchDarkly) from 2023-12-14T10:11:30.184418

On this episode, Ashu interviews Edith Harbaugh, co-founder and CEO of feature management platform LaunchDarkly. They discuss what it takes to leap from an established job to pursue an idea, and ho...

How to Go From Idea to IPO (George Kurtz&Michelle Zatlyn) from 2023-12-14T10:11:30.172395

In this session from our FC BUILD conference, Ashu interviews two billion-dollar founders. When it comes to scaling management, engineering culture, and anticipating future markets, Cloudflare COO ...

BONUS: How to Architect the Future (Max Simkoff, Founder&CEO of Doma) from 2023-12-14T10:11:30.161005

This is a special bonus episode of B2BaCEO featuring one of Foundation Capital’s own CEOs, Max Simkoff. In 2016, Max founded Doma, a real estate transactions startup, out of our San Francisco of...

How to Win (Dan Springer, CEO of DocuSign) from 2023-12-14T10:11:30.152294

Dan Springer is a three-time Silicon Valley CEO. He’s currently the CEO of DocuSign, which he took public and subsequently scaled to more than $2 billion in run-rate revenue and $50+ billion in mar...

How to Lead With Gusto (Josh Reeves, Co-Founder&CEO of Gusto) from 2023-12-14T10:11:30.140029

On this episode, Ashu interviews Josh Reeves, founder and CEO of Gusto, which is reimagining payroll, benefits, and HR for modern companies. Josh joins Ashu to celebrate Gusto’s 10th anniversary. ...

How to Deploy AI in Your Company (Matei Zaharia, CTO&Co-Founder of Databricks) from 2023-12-14T10:11:30.110708

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 compu...

How to Power the AI Boom (Robert Nishihara, Co-Founder&CEO of Anyscale) from 2023-11-17T20:31:10

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 ...

How to Build, Scale, and Sell a Startup (Tracy Young, Co-Founder of TigerEye&PlanGrid) from 2023-09-15T23:31:28

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 acqu...

How to Capture the AI Moment (Bobby Yerramilli-Rao, Chief Strategy Officer at Microsoft) from 2023-04-26T18:32:43

As everyone listening to this podcast knows, the release of ChatGPT last November ushered in a new age of AI and catalyzed a wave of AI startups. For this episode of B2BaCEO, Ashu goes deep on AI w...

How to Grow in a Bear Market (Beerud Sheth, Co-Founder&CEO of Gupshup) from 2022-12-16T19:31:01

Beerud Sheth is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gupshup, a leading platform for cloud messaging. Prior to that he was the cofounder of what is now Upwork, a pioneer of online freelancing and remote work....

How to Build a Hundred Billion Dollar Company (Jonathan Siddharth, Co-Founder&CEO of Turing) from 2022-10-25T19:13:33

Jonathan Siddharth is cofounder and CEO of Turing, the platform that helps companies source, vet, match, and manage the world's best software developers remotely. Jonathan started Turing in Foundat...

How to Build an Organization (Alex Bouaziz, Co-Founder&CEO of Deel) from 2022-09-22T18:28:35

Alex Bouaziz is the guest for this edition of the show. He is the Co-founder and CEO of Deel, a global payroll solution that helps businesses hire anyone, anywhere. Founded in 2019, Alex and his te...

How to Be a SaaS Wunderkind (Christian Owens, Founder&CEO of Paddle) from 2022-07-27T16:49:20

On this episode, Ashu is coming to you from London, where he’s spending the summer. His guest is Christian Owens, founder and CEO of Paddle, a B2B payments infrastructure platform. Christian is ...

How to Hire People Better Than Yourself (Ashutosh Garg, Founder&CEO of Eightfold) from 2022-06-24T00:45:03

On this episode, it’s Ashu Garg vs. Ashu Garg. Our guest is his good friend Ashu Garg, who also goes by Ashutosh. Ashutosh is the founder and CEO of Eightfold, an AI-powered talent-acquisition and ...

How to Sell Software (Yamini Rangan, CEO of HubSpot) from 2022-04-26T18:34:09

On this episode, Ashu’s guest is Yamini Rangan, the CEO of HubSpot. The tagline of the B2BaCEO podcast is “from engineer to CEO,” and that’s exactly the path that Yamini took. She started out as an...

How to Be a One-Man C-Suite (Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks) from 2022-03-28T06:30

Nikesh Arora began his career at Fidelity Technologies, where he served as VP Finance. He then went onto T-Mobile, where he was CMO and then in 2004 joined Google, initially running Europe and was ...

How to Build a Decacorn (Ali Ghodsi, Co-Founder&CEO of DataBricks) from 2022-02-17T06:00

DataBricks CEO and cofounder, Ali Ghodsi, is back on the podcast for a third time, making him the most frequent guest we’ve had on the show. On this episode, courtesy of our recent enterprise confe...

How to Amp It Up (Frank Slootman, Chairman&CEO, Snowflake) from 2022-01-19T06:00

How to Scale Product-Market Fit (Rob Bernshteyn, CEO&Chairman, Coupa Software) from 2021-09-16T00:49:41

Rob Bernshteyn’s definition of product-market-fit is having “the least lines of code with the maximum amount of value and the highest willingness to pay for that value.” Rob is the CEO of Coupa, th...

How to Do OKRs Right (Deidre Paknad, CEO&Co-Founder of WorkBoard) from 2021-06-28T17:22:29

This episode goes deep on a topic that many founders, especially first-time founders, obsess over but usually get wrong: OKRs, objectives and key results. And there’s literally no greater authority...

How to Protect Your Perimeter (Doug Merritt and Mike DeCesare) from 2021-05-12T19:10:11

Doug Merritt and Mike DeCesare both hold leadership roles at prominent cybersecurity companies. But before they made their way into the CEO seat, both spent many years in a variety of operational p...

How to Grow as a CEO (Tien Tzuo and Edith Harbaugh) from 2021-04-21T07:10:21

In this installment of our FC BUILD series, my partner Steve Vassallo talks with Edith Harbaugh, co-founder and CEO of LaunchDarkly, and Tien Tzuo, co-founder and CEO of Zuora. Both former engineer...

How to Commercialize Open Source (Ali Ghodsi, Co-Founder&CEO of Databricks) from 2021-03-18T21:24:05

In this discussion from our recent enterprise conference FC BUILD, Ashu interviews Databricks founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi. A rather unconventional company, Databricks began as an open-source project...

How to Manage on the Edge of Chaos (Reed Hastings, CEO&Co-Founder of Netflix) from 2021-02-19T07:00

This is a special episode of B2B a CEO. Last month, Foundation Capital held a special event for all of our CEOs. We hosted a conversation with Foundation’s most illustrious CEO, Reed Hastings, the ...

How to Build a Snowflake (Frank Slootman, Chairman&CEO of Snowflake) from 2021-01-28T09:00:13

From FC BUILD, our recent enterprise conference, Foundation Capital General Partner Joanne Chen interviews Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman. On the heels of his third major IPO, Frank discusses perform...

How to Be an Anti-Racist CEO (Ralph Clark, President&CEO of ShotSpotter) from 2020-09-14T06:31:12

This episode’s guest is Ralph Clark, the president and CEO of ShotSpotter. Ralph has more than 30 years of experience in corporate finance and organizational leadership roles at IBM, Goldman Sachs,...

How to Hate Losing (George Kurtz, Founder&CEO of Crowdstrike) from 2020-07-15T06:15:45

George Kurtz, the founder and CEO of Crowdstrike, the most successful cybersecurity company of the past decade, is the very special guest for this episode. George joins Ashu for in-depth conversati...

How to Go to Market (Ali Ghodsi, Co-Founder&CEO of Databricks) from 2020-06-12T15:41:08

On this episode, we have Ali Ghodsi, cofounder and CEO of Databricks, a cloud platform for massive scale data engineering and collaborative data science. For the first third of the podcast, Ali te...

How to Make Your CEO Dreams Come True (Mark Leslie, Managing General Partner at Leslie Ventures) from 2020-04-21T02:45:58

In part 2 of my interview with Mark Leslie, we dive deeper into his experience founding Veritas and leading it to become a Fortune 100 software company. We hear more about Mark’s eventual departure...

How to Manage Your Board&Everything Else (Mark Leslie, Managing General Partner at Leslie Ventures) from 2020-03-18T23:26:35

Mark Leslie is the founder & CEO of Veritas Technology, a company he grew from an idea to a Fortune 100 powerhouse worth over $1B in revenue. My interview with Mark was so full of wisdom that we de...

How to Be Your Best CEO Self (Dane Holewinski, Startup Founder&CEO Coach at Decode) from 2020-01-31T19:31:19

For the first episode of the new year and new decade, a startup-founder-turned-CEO coach offers some guidance on being your best CEO self.

How to Be a VC Jr. (Adi Garg&Ashu Garg) from 2019-12-16T10:01:13

This one is for you really, really early-stage founders. Fifth-grader Adi Garg interviews his dad about startups and venture capital and chocolate.

How to Change the World (Ion Stoica, Executive Chairman&Former CEO of Databricks;&Co-Founder of Conviva) from 2019-11-21T20:00:40

Two-time founder/CEO, and Berkeley computer science professor, Ion Stoica chats with Ashu about what it means to have an impact and how to go from academic to entrepreneur.

How to Scale Sales (Sudheesh Nair and Ajeet Singh of ThoughtSpot) from 2019-10-31T07:05:36

Sudheesh Nair and Ajeet Singh discuss the tricky process of handing off the CEO baton. They also go deep on how to build a world-class sales organization.

How to Create a Mission-Driven Culture (Jennifer Tejada, CEO of PagerDuty) from 2019-09-23T22:16

Jennifer Tejada, CEO of PagerDuty, puts people and relationships at the forefront of her business strategy. In this episode of the podcast, she tells me what she’s learned as a two-time CEO and ...

How to Plan for Success (Mohit Aron, Founder/CEO of Cohesity) from 2019-07-10T18:27

Two-time founder Mohit Aron tells me how blueprints and checklists can guide your startup in its earliest stages.

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Mohit goes into more detail about his entry point framework

How to Scale Company Culture (Aaron Levie, CEO&Co-Founder of Box, Part 2/2) from 2019-04-10T09:30

Aaron tells me how to scale your company while maintaining its culture and the benefits of going public.

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More about Andy Grove’s 10X theory

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How to Pivot (Aaron Levie, CEO&Co-Founder of Box, Part 1/2) from 2019-03-15T17:09

Dorm room startup co-founder Aaron Levie tells me how he made the decision to pivot Box from a consumer product to an enterprise solution.

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Getting Mark Cuban

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How to Scale Happiness (Eric Yuan, Founder/CEO of Zoom) from 2019-01-28T18:49

Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan tells me why and how happiness is an essential part of his multi-billion-dollar company.

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Glassdoor names Zoom the best tech company to work for in ...

How to B2B a VC (Ashu Garg, General Partner at Foundation Capital) from 2018-12-19T09:00

The man, the maniac.

How to Tell Your Company’s Story (Tien Tzuo, Co-Founder/CEO of Zuora) from 2018-11-15T12:35

Tien Tzuo, Co-Founder and CEO of Zuora, tells me how he tells his company’s story when he pitches to customers and investors and how to scale up to $1 billion.

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Tien’s book

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How to Turn Failure into Success (Frederic Laluyaux, President/CEO of Aera Technology) from 2018-10-18T18:08

Frederic Laluyaux’s first startup flopped but he has taken that experience with him to his current position as president and CEO of Aera Technology. Frederic tells me how to new founders can fin...

How to Nurture Executive Talent (Doug Knopper, Co-Founder/Co-CEO of FreeWheel) from 2018-09-19T15:53

Co-Founder and Co-CEO of FreeWheel Doug Knopper tells me how he uses his considerable Silicon Valley experience to train the next generation of talent with his new project, CEOhacker.

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How to Succeed at Customer Success (Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight) from 2018-08-12T00:00

Super-networker and Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta tells me how listening to people and creating a good company culture has turned the customer success software platform into a market leader.

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How to Go from Underdog to Top Dog (Dheeraj Pandey, Co-Founder/CEO of Nutanix) from 2018-07-24T00:00

Co-Founder and CEO of Nutanix Dheeraj Pandey took his company from an idea to a unicorn in just five years. He tells me how he still feels like an underdog and why simple, reliable products make...