Listen, first off, an IPO is a milestone and starting destination. Having Nvidia investing cohesion is more important than IPO, okay? Because like to me, having the influence in India, now we've got not just great venture investors like, you know, Sequoia, Sop Bank, Carlisle, Valley, and so on. But we've got incredible corporate investors. We've got Invidio. We've got Amazon, AWS. We've got Google. We've got Cisco. We've got InVidio, we've got Amazon, AWS, we've got Google,

we've got Cisco, we've got IBM, five really good tech investors who are collaborating

with us to ensure we're successful. We've done this at SAP, have done this at VMware.

There comes a good time to potentially do an entry to the capital markets. we'll do it when the time is right.

Welcome to another bonus episode

of the Tech Brew Ride Home podcast.

I'm Brian McCullough, as always.

Today, we are talking to Sanjay Poonen,

CEO of Cohesity.

Sanjay, thanks for coming on to talk to us today.

Thank you, Brian.

Ready to be on your show.

Let's start with the headline.

I believe Cohesity just finished the combination

with Veritas's data protection business.

I'm curious, in your mind, what was the core strategic bet behind that move?

Like, what did you believe you'd be able to do together that neither company could do a loan?

Yeah, I think it's very simple.

When I got to the company three years ago, of course, he had the best tech in the industry.

I talked to many of the customers.

These were VMware customers who I'd known very well,

one of the biggest banks. And they said nobody had built a platform like

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