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Mohit Aron

Cofounder, Cohesity

Search every verified Mohit Aron interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Mohit Aron, cofounder of Nutanix and Cohesity, has been discussing his new venture, SciFin, an AI company focused on addressing what he calls the "context gap" in go-to-market operations. In recent podcast appearances, he described sales data as fragmented across dozens of tools and often inaccurate, stale, or missing. He said SciFin aims to consolidate these tools and use AI to monitor customer interactions, such as voice recordings and emails, to automatically update deal scores and provide context for sales teams. Aron cited an example of a CFO who reported a pipeline dropping from $500 million to under $400 million within two weeks despite using roughly 50 tools, which he attributed to tool sprawl and insufficient context. Aron also reflected on his earlier career, including his work on the Google File System and his roles founding Nutanix and Cohesity, both of which he said scaled to over $1 billion in annual recurring revenue. He described an IPO as "just a milestone" and a "funding round in the big scheme of things," expressing pride that Nutanix continues to perform well. He advised entrepreneurs to pursue passion rather than money, stating that running after money can lead to unethical decisions and short-term thinking.

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“Imagine the new world where siphon or AI is watching over all the interactions they're having with customers including voice recordings, emails and stuff. And so every time they have an interaction, let's say they go to a meeting with the customer, our AI is going to scan through the immediate voice recording and maybe the emails transacted since the last time AI looked at it. And then the AI is going to come up with”

“The go to market data what we'll refer to as context is all over the place, sitting in dozens of tools, right? It's very fragmented. And number two, this context was not even accurately reflecting reality. Like sometimes it would be flat out just missing, right? It doesn't exist or it's stale or garbage, right? And so what I was finding was that number one the context was hard to get at and number two even if you get”

“One CFO told me that we have like some 50 tools and we are connecting AI to some 50 different tools and MCP connectors, and yet the quarter just started. At the beginning of the quarter, the pipeline looked healthy. We entered the quarter with $500 million in pipeline, and within two weeks we had people who looked at the pipeline closely and the pipeline fell by more than $100 million. That's an example of a lot of t”

“An IPO is just a milestone along the way and companies I mean it's just a funding round in the big scheme of things. I mean yeah you just like you know your kid goes to college or gets a good grade in college you celebrate that. So you should always celebrate these milestones and so yeah there was some exhilaration when that happened but then there is life after the IPO and I'm glad to see that Nutanix is still doing”

“The company's name comes from 'science behind financials' — my goal is to bring science to go-to-market execution because that function is essentially about financials and there is no good platform giving predictable insights.”

“Why don't you take that money and invest in yourself — if you truly believe in this company then you're going to get way more returns; you're an insider in this company. If you don't believe in this company you should leave and go somewhere else.”

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