Episode Details

Two thrilling topics this week: moderating panels and the mystery of Oracle cloud. Also, some Austin talk.

Mood board:

• The East India Company and Kodak
• I just want your best 5 hours.
• Executives can only pay attention for 20 minutes.
• I’m in for a panel.
• I’m more interested in hearing from the artist, not the people looking at the painting.
• Ten year journey with billions of burn.
• We’re talking about trillion dollar companies.
• You can’t have enough storage for your podcasts.
• Fired 2,000 people…and now hiring 2,000 people.
• First-gen cloud building people are often a handful.

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