Ajeet Singh on technology for good

Ajeet Singh is a risk taker. There’s no other way to describe someone who's done the things he has and accomplished so much in such a short amount of time. An immigrant, entrepreneur, and and most importantly a disruptor, Singh has constructed two multi-billion dollar entities from the ground up. Throughout his journey, he’s been guided by two principles: his out-of-the-box thinking and curiosity about how he can improve people’s lives. As a young entrepreneur working in Silicon Valley during the big data days, Singh noticed the data and analytics space was ripe for disruption. So he did something about it. First with Nutranix and now with ThoughtSpot, where he's working to solve some of the world's biggest problems by democratizing data for all. On this episode of The Data Chief, Singh, Co-founder and Executive Chairman at ThoughtSpot, dives into some of the biggest challenges facing CDOs in 2021, why organizations must empower their leadership teams to drive meaningful change, and how big tech can be utilized for good moving forward. Main Takeaways: The cloud is here to stay: Large enterprises are increasingly moving their data to the cloud. The challenge now for CEOs and CDOs is not “if” they will adopt cloud but “when,” and how quickly they can get there while maintaining their current momentum. Empower your leaders to drive change: It’s easy to create new C-level positions, but real innovation and transformation starts with empowering your leadership with the required mandates and resources to empower their teams. Build your culture with intention: Every organization inherently has a culture and you must be deliberate about how you build that culture. Every department should reflect your core principles and create a space for individuals and teams to thrive. About Ajeet Ajeet Singh (  / ajeetsinghmann  ) is the co-founder and Executive Chairman at ThoughtSpot, a company revolutionizing analytics with search and AI. Driven by his passion for creation, Ajeet has built two multi-billion dollar technology companies from the ground up - ThoughtSpot and Nutanix. Prior to starting ThoughtSpot, he was a co-founder and Chief Products Officer at Nutanix, the leader in the enterprise cloud industry and largest tech IPO of 2016. Prior to Nutanix, Ajeet learned the ropes of enterprise technology startups as the Senior Director of Product Management at Aster Data, later acquired by Teradata for $300M. Ajeet has also held business and technical roles at Oracle, where he was part of the team that first launched Oracle Database to the Amazon EC2 cloud. Ajeet holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he graduated at the top of his class. -- The Data Chief is presented by our friends at ThoughtSpot. Searching through your company’s data for insights doesn’t have to be complicated. With ThoughtSpot, anyone in your organization can easily answer their own data questions, find the facts, and make better, faster decisions. Learn more at thoughtspot.com (https://bit.ly/2VPU8fF) .  Hear more from Cindi Howson here (  / biscorecard  ) . Sponsored by ThoughtSpot (https://www.thoughtspot.com/) .