Transcript
Introduction
Patrick
My guest today is Dev Ittycheria. Dev is the CEO of MongoDB, the developer of data platform with tens of thousands of customers in 100 different countries. He joined the company as CEO in 2014, taking it public in 2017 and now approaching a decade of leading MongoDB to become a go-to choice for the most sophisticated organizations around the world.
We discussed Dev’s philosophy for constructing an exceptional enterprise sales organization, why he feels a leader must be incredibly judgmental to drive excellence and how he plans to guide MongoDB through another technological transition. Please enjoy this great conversation with Dev Ittycheria.
Living Through a Technology Transition
Patrick
So we were just talking about what it's like to live through technology transitions. And often, I talk about this with investors from the perspective of what opportunities does this unlock that weren't there before. And lots of investors have made fortunes around some big platform change or something.