Saket Saurabh - Podcast Details

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The SaaS Podcast: Build, Launch & Scale Your SaaS Founder-Led Sales: Landing Instacart & LinkedIn Without a Sales Team | NexlaSaket Saurabh defied standard SaaS advice by skipping SMBs and selling directly to Enterprise giants like Instacart and LinkedIn from day one. Here is the "Enterprise First" strategy that allowed Nexla to become cash flow positive with multiple 7-figures in revenue before their Series A. In this episode, Saket (Co-founder & CEO of Nexla) breaks down exactly how to navigate complex corporate buy-cycles without a track record. Learn how he used "consultative selling" to close 6-figure contracts, the "Magic Moment" live-coding tactic that won Instacart, and the painful "Zero Salary" pivot the founders took to save the company...

2025-12-0442 min

Data Driven The Fast-Moving Train of AI - Sovereignty, Acceleration, & Lessons from HistoryOn this episode of Data Driven, hosts Frank La Vigne and Leonard celebrate a major milestone: the 30th anniversary of Franksworld.com, one of the OGs of tech blogging that’s survived multiple browser wars, dot-com crashes, and the relentless march of Internet time. Joined by guest Saket Saurabh, they dive into the rapidly evolving landscape of AI, data science, and technology, comparing today’s AI boom to previous tech bubbles and exploring trends in sovereign AI, data sovereignty, and global competition in quantum computing.The conversation takes us from the days of hand-coded HTML uphill in both...

2025-10-131h 15

The Joe Reis Show The Rise of the Context Company: Reshaping Data Engineering with Saket SaurabhIn this episode, I sit down with Saket Saurabh (CEO of Nexla) to discuss the fundamental shift happening in the AI landscape. The conversation is moving beyond the race to build the biggest foundational models and towards a new battleground: context. We explore what it means to be a "model company" versus a "context company" and how this changes everything for data strategy and enterprise AI. Join us as we cover:Model vs. Context Companies: The emerging divide between companies building models (like OpenAI) and those whose advantage lies in their unique...

2025-10-0148 min

Shift & Thrive: CEO Insights on Driving Change Navigating Innovation - Saket Saurabh - Shift & Thrive - Episode # 026In this week’s episode of Shift & Thrive, Natalie sits down with Saket Saurabh, Co-Founder and CEO of Nexla. Saket, a seasoned entrepreneur and technologist, shares his journey from his early days at NVIDIA to leading a Gartner Cool Vendor company. They explore the massive impact of generative AI, how it reshaped businesses, and the importance of data integration. Saket offers deep insights into fostering an innovative culture, balancing innovation and scaling, and the role of patience in achieving long-term success. They also discuss the nuances of go-to-market strategies in both pre and post-funding scenarios and the common challenges or...

2025-01-0846 min

Monday Morning Data Chat #129 - Putting Data Products at the Center of Data Management w/ Saket SaurabhSaket Saurabh joins the show to chat about taking a data product-centric view to reinventing data management. #data #dataproducts #datamanagement #dataengineering

2023-06-051h 05

Data Driven Saket Saurabh on Automating Data EngineeringIn this episode of Data Driven, Frank and Andy get back to the data engineering side of the equation by speaking with Saket Saurabh, CEO & co founder of Nexla. Nexla specializes in tools for automating data engineering processes.

2023-05-2350 min

BUILDERS Saket Saurabh, CEO of Nexla: $15 Million Raised to Build the Future of Data OperationsIn today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Saket Saurabh, CEO of Nexla, a no-code data operations platform that’s raised over $15 Million in funding, about why the limitations of our analytics are stifling the tremendous potential of the data we all generate. Working over several years to produce a market-ready solution to most people’s near total data illiteracy, Nexla is ready to expand their reach, offering a no-code, fully automated software package to ensure that anyone and everyone can get the most out of the 21st-century’s most valuable commercial commodity, data. We also spoke...

2023-01-1831 min

DM Radio Foundations For Success: Data Platforms Evolve With Chris Jones And Saket SaurabhSo much more than a database, the modern data platform delivers a range of functionality that enables better experiences for customers, partners and corporate employees. Whether for customer data, third party data or other use cases, modern data platforms enable organizations to be more aware, responsive and accountable. How can your company take advantage? Check out this episode of DM Radio to find out! Host @eric_kavanagh will interview Chris Jones of Amperity and Saket Saurabh of Nexla.

2022-08-1250 min

DM Radio Foundations for Success: Data Platforms EvolveSo much more than a database, the modern data platform delivers a range of functionality that enables better experiences for customers, partners and corporate employees. Whether for customer data, third party data or other use cases, modern data platforms enable organizations to be more aware, responsive and accountable. How can your company take advantage? Check out this episode of DM Radio to find out! Host @eric_kavanagh will interview Chris Jones of Amperity and Saket Saurabh of Nexla.

2022-08-0553 min

Retail Corner: New Normal in Retail Technology & Business Data Sensemaking: A No-Code/Low-Code ApproachThe demand for no-code/low-code retail data solutions will grow dramatically and empower individuals beyond the classic CTO and CIO roles at major retailers to access and understand data connectors and data fabric. Expert views from Saket Saurabh, Co-Founder & CEO, Nexla in talks with Shailja on Retail Corner. Additional touchpoints to hear: Why Agile and hybrid data models are key to improved business performance. Making sense of data for digital goods like NFT. Retail revolution through innovative technologies like Blockchain & Metaverse. About Saket Saurabh: Saket Saurabh is the co-founder and CEO of Nexla...

2022-01-1948 min

The Ravit Show "The Ravit Show" with Saket Saurabh, CEO of NexlaDo you want to know more about the Evolving the Data Analyst mindset for an AI future? In this episode Saket Saurabh, CEO of Nexla, talks about Data Use Cases, Best Data Tools, how to simplify data prep, solving challenges with advanced analytics, AI/ML - Driven Tooling options, his journey and much more! #data #datascience #python #machinelearning #analytics #moderndatastack #ai #bi #artificialintelligence

2021-12-211h 03

MICAST The Official Podcast Of MICA Ahmedabad S05 EP07 | Mr. Saket Jha Saurabh | The Alum SagaRethinking Digital Partnerships ft. Saket Jha Saurabh. In this episode, we dissect the ever-evolving world of digital content creators, the business of helping users build community, and what to take away from B-school! Mr. Saket Jha Saurabh is an alumnus from the batch of 2002, and is currently the Director & Head - Entertainment and Music Partnerships at Facebook India. He shared with us his insights on how to effectively solve for the consumer and achieve the perfect product-market fit in the digital economy. We're excited to bring to you an in-depth dive into how Facebook's partners a...

2021-11-1738 min

Data Engineering Podcast A View From The Round Table Of Gartner's Cool VendorsSummary Gartner analysts are tasked with identifying promising companies each year that are making an impact in their respective categories. For businesses that are working in the data management and analytics space they recognized the efforts of Timbr.ai, Soda Data, Nexla, and Tada. In this episode the founders and leaders of each of these organizations share their perspective on the current state of the market, and the challenges facing businesses and data professionals today. Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management When you’re ready to...

2021-09-091h 04

Data Engineering Podcast Decoupling Data Operations From Data Infrastructure Using NexlaSummary The technological and social ecosystem of data engineering and data management has been reaching a stage of maturity recently. As part of this stage in our collective journey the focus has been shifting toward operation and automation of the infrastructure and workflows that power our analytical workloads. It is an encouraging sign for the industry, but it is still a complex and challenging undertaking. In order to make this world of DataOps more accessible and manageable the team at Nexla has built a platform that decouples the logical unit of data from the underlying mechanisms so...

2021-08-2557 min

Building the Backend: Data Solutions that Power Leading Organizations Unify Your Data Operations with NexlaTravis welcomes to his podcast Saket Saurabh, who provides a window into the world of data management and the self-service options that are democratizing it. Co-founder and CEO of Nexla, Saket has a passion for data and infrastructure and how to improve its flow among partners, customers and vendors. Nexla automates various data engineering tasks, intelligently creates an abstraction of data and enables collaboration among people at different skill levels. Named a 2021 Cool Vendor by Gartner, Nexla is a leader in data preparation, integration and tracking.Top 3 value bombs: Data architectures overall need to b...

2021-08-2425 min

XR-OM Saurabh & Saket- Liminal Virtual StudioThe Founder/Co-Founder speak about the challenges and joy’s of being a first mover, how India lacks an ecosystem or any support from the tech behemoths fore fronting this technology plus distribution and monetization problem

2019-10-0242 min