Chief Operating Officer, The Trade Desk
Search every verified Vivek Kundra interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Vivek Kundra, currently chief operating officer at The Trade Desk, previously served as the first U.S. chief information officer under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2011. In that role, Kundra said he launched the IT Dashboard, which made the performance of federal IT projects publicly available, and credited the initiative with saving over $3 billion in six months by identifying wasteful spending. He also said he implemented a "cloud first" policy for federal technology procurement and helped pass the America COMPETES Act, which allowed agencies to use prizes and challenges to find technology solutions. Kundra has described his approach as shifting government from "asset ownership to service provisioning" and focusing on "ruthless execution." After leaving the White House, Kundra joined Salesforce as executive vice president, where he worked on industry-specific cloud solutions including healthcare and public sector engagement. He has spoken about the need for governments to close the "innovation gap" between consumer technology and public services, arguing that citizens expect the same ease of use from government as they do from companies like Amazon or Uber. Kundra has also advised organizations to "be first to the future" and to constantly adjust strategy in response to changing market conditions, warning that companies that ignore disruption risk becoming irrelevant.
“Within a 60-day period I launched the IT dashboard — we got the president to take a picture of him looking at the IT dashboard and I blogged about it. The Department of Veterans Affairs halted 42 IT projects, terminating a number of them, and were able to save $3 billion as a result of shining light on the operations o...”
“Congratulations you're now responsible for $80 billion in Information Technology for the United States government and here are $27 billion of technology projects that are years behind schedule and millions of dollars over budget.”
“I found out that the way mobile devices were assigned to the government was based on the number of years you'd been in office or the square footage of your office.”
“We decided to move away from a model of asset ownership where we're building everything to a model of asset provisioning or service provisioning and that allowed us to identify about $20 billion in savings as we started shifting investments to cloud computing.”
“When you look at whether it's Google or Amazon or Salesforce or Concur or Workday they represent what the future is going to look like when it comes to technology.”
“By 2017 it's predicted that there will be five billion people with smartphones ... how do you make sure that you don't become the Kodak of this era?”
“You want to be first to the future so you can welcome your customers before your competitors do.”
“The president ... employs a Socratic method: he'll pick on the quietest person in the room and say what is your perspective, and he has the ability to triangulate, ask the tough questions and arrive at the right decisions.”
“In this new world order you have to be able to build your own red teams and blue teams where you're constantly attacking your own systems.”
“We've got an amazing CEO named Mark Benioff who does something phenomenal around aligning everybody; tactics should inform your strategy and you must constantly align the team.”
“You can't put a strategy in place and stick to it no matter what's going on in the ground; you have to have a strategy but also be able to adjust your tactics based on the world constantly changing.”
“In the healthcare space, we've partnered with Phillips to fundamentally transform the entire sector, focusing on chronic diseases that represent 90% of the cost in most healthcare systems, shifting power to the patient to monitor their health in real-time and collaborate with nurses and doctors for better care at home.”
“In the public sector, citizens should be able to engage with their government without waiting in line, holding on the phone, or submitting complex paper forms; unlike the consumer world where 'there's an app for that,' the government world still relies on forms, and we're trying to close that innovation gap.”
“Salesforce is at the center of digital transformation with the first customer success platform that allows people to connect in ways that were not possible before, enabling building apps on the fly, slicing and dicing big data, and driving analytics in unprecedented ways.”
“The world is moving from mainframes and mini computers with thousands of users to billions of users with social, mobile, and cloud technologies, and now entering a phase where sensors digitize the physical world; Salesforce is already playing a role with its analytics cloud to process sensor data and provide deep insig...”
Vivek Kundra, who served the Obama administration as the first federal Chief Information Officer, will be joined by Tom Ashbrook, host of 90.9 WBUR’s “On Point,” in a discussion exploring the impact and implications of cloud computing on journalism and the media industry.
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