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Jagtar Chaudhry

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Board, Zscaler

Search every verified Jagtar Chaudhry interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Jay Chaudhry, CEO and chairman of Zscaler, discussed the company's quarterly results and its focus on securing AI agents in recent interviews. He described the quarter as a record by multiple measures, citing revenue growth, an annual recurring revenue exceeding $3.8 billion, and a non-GAAP operating margin of 24%. He also addressed the company's upcoming investor day and its new agent-native security operations offering, which he said uses telemetry from Zscaler's inline position to detect and respond to threats in minutes. In an interview with Yahoo Finance, Chaudhry said AI agents are becoming the weakest link in corporate security and advocated for a zero-trust approach, stating that agents should not be trusted by default. He pushed back on comments by OpenAI's Sam Altman that the world should accept some negative outcomes from AI, saying that human ingenuity can find solutions and that each party needs to take responsibility. He also advised private AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI on going public, saying it is a good thing that makes companies more responsible and adds discipline, while noting that enterprises prefer working with public companies due to transparency.

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“Going public is a good thing. It actually makes you more responsible and you do the right thing that needs to be done. uh we have been public for eight years now. It feels like yesterday I remember when you went but I think it's a good thing it puts some discipline but at the same time you run a good business you have lot more brand and also enterprises like to work with public companies because the transparency is t”

“The traditional companies in the security space with firewalls and VPNs, they may call talk about zero trust and SASE all day long, but they want to protect those installed bases. They don't want cannibalization of it. So, generally, their message is I'm zero trust. I'm SASE. I'm everything. So, don't worry about it. And a number of users don't understand it, and they just buy the message. Unfortunately, this creates”

“Europe is very important part of business. In fact, our our two largest markets outside the US are in Europe. So you see we we have 25 plus data centers in US sorry in Europe and we started building our cloud with data sovereignty in mind from day one we made sure every log sits here we don't really store any traffic only log sits here GDPR and Dora compliance were important part of us and that's what we built around”

“India today offers far more opportunities than it did 30, 40 years ago. So, opportunities here are wonderful. I actually do like the reverse brain drain. In some ways, we all kind of all feel like US has become more restrictive. But it is, I believe, US's loss and India's gain. Cuz those bright people are coming and setting up companies here. And India is also a growing economy. For companies to succeed, for business”

“The amount of code created by these agents — you think it won't have any vulnerabilities? I think things will really get worse before they get better: more attacks, more agents, more of the stuff.”

“So billings is a secondary number for us. The number one area of focus is revenue growth — our revenue grew 26% year over year and our operating margin is 22%, and with Z Flex customers committing to multiyear deals, I don't think billings should be viewed in a negative light.”

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