Ryan Gavin is EVP and Chief Marketing Officer at Slack, where he leads global growth, go-to-market strategy, and commercial operations as the company evolves into the work operating system for the AI era. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Nebius — the ultimate cloud for AI innovators.Nebius provides AI infrastructure you can count on, combining reliability and speed with flexibility and engineering support unmatched by hyperscalers. AI leaders like Meta, Shopify, and Higgsfield already partner with Nebius to run their AI workloads. Plus, venture-backed startups can save up to $150,000 on compute costs when they apply for access. Visit nebius.com or nebius.com/startups to learn more~~~~~~~~~~~~~Prior to Slack, Ryan served as Chief Growth Officer at Convoy, leading the commercial engine of a $650M+ digital freight marketplace, and previously built the AI and machine learning business at Amazon Web Services into a multi-billion-dollar category. Before AWS, he spent nearly two decades at Microsoft, where he helped bring Bing to profitability, scaled it to billions of monthly searches, and led the commercial Surface business. Across enterprise software, cloud computing, AI, and marketplaces, Ryan has built a reputation for creating new categories, scaling growth engines, and helping organizations translate technology innovation into measurable business outcomes.Topics:

• Microsoft Bing turnaround to profitability: 5 billion searches and Cortana 145M users playbook
• Lessons from AWS, Microsoft, Convoy, and Slack on scaling adoption
• Scaling Slack 2.5x revenue with 100K+ customers and 900% AI usage growth

#Slack #CMO #EnterpriseAI #AgenticEnterprise #ProductLedGrowth

Sasha Orloff is Founder and CEO of Puzzle building a modern core accounting platform with real-time general ledger automation for provable accuracy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Nebius — the ultimate cloud for AI innovators.Nebius provides AI infrastructure you can count on, combining reliability and speed with flexibility and engineering support unmatched by hyperscalers. AI leaders like Meta, Shopify, and Higgsfield already partner with Nebius to run their AI workloads. Plus, venture-backed startups can save up to $150,000 on compute costs when they apply for access. Visit nebius.com or nebius.com/startups to learn more~~~~~~~~~~~~~After founding LendUp which raised over $1 billion in venture capital and debt, he spun out Mission Lane credit card division. Inspired by Muhammad Yunus, he spent years at Grameen Foundation in Honduras, World Bank's CGAP, and Citigroup before launching fintech serving underserved markets. UCSD Applied Math and Economics graduate with Georgetown MBA, he hosts a16z Tech Finance Podcast and lectures at Stanford, Princeton, and Harvard.Topics

• How Puzzle delivers real-time accounting without 30-60 day financial reporting delays
• Scaling Lendup $1B capital raise through underserved market fintech innovation
• Growing Mission Lane credit spinout during Lendup operational transformation

#AccountingTech #Puzzle #Fintech #LendUp #RealTimeFinance

Pat Casey is the Chief Technology Officer and EVP of DevOps at ServiceNow and one of the company’s founding leaders. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Nebius — the ultimate cloud for AI innovators.Nebius provides AI infrastructure you can count on, combining reliability and speed with flexibility and engineering support unmatched by hyperscalers.AI leaders like Meta, Shopify, and Higgsfield already partner with Nebius to run their AI workloads. Plus, venture-backed startups can save up to $150,000 on compute costs when they apply for access. Visit nebius.com or nebius.com/startups to learn more~~~~~~~~~~~~~Since joining in the company's earliest days, Pat has played a central role in building the ServiceNow platform into one of the world's leading enterprise software ecosystems. He worked alongside Fred Luddy to create the Glide platform, the foundation of what is now the ServiceNow AI Platform, led the development of the company's high-performance database technologies, and helped drive the integration of AI and large language models across ServiceNow's products. Today, he oversees a global organization spanning engineering, cloud operations, AI, developer productivity, advanced technologies, customer support, and product development, helping shape how enterprises automate and transform their operations at scale.Topics

• Building ServiceNow AI Platform from Glide to LLM integration transforming enterprise apps
• From ServiceNow founder 2006 to CTO: scaling 7,000 to 10,000 employees across AI and DevOps
• AI integration at enterprise scale: LLMs empowering users to solve complex business challenges

#ServiceNow #CTO #AIPlatform #DevOps #EnterpriseAI