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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

Cybersecurity Is Big Business

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Motley Fool

Investing, Business

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The threats are getting bigger but so are the businesses trying to prevent them. David Meier and Deidre Woollard discuss: - Metrics to watch in business-to-business tech companies. - Why Palo Alto Networks reported on a Friday night. - The growth trends for cybersecurity as a whole. Companies discussed: ZM, PANW, ZS, CRWD Host: Deidre Woollard Guest: David Meier Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineer: Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's a cyber security Monday as we look forward to a tech heavy week.

0:09.1

Motley Full Money starts now.

0:21.2

Welcome to Motley Full Money.

0:22.7

I'm Deedra Willard here with Motley Full Analyst, David Mayer at David How are you today?

0:27.0

I'm doing fantastic.

0:28.5

How are you?

0:29.5

I'm doing great.

0:30.5

You're a long time full analyst, but you haven't been on the podcast for a while, so I'm

0:34.9

happy to rectify that.

0:37.0

And I'm excited to have you on today because we've got a lot of business to business tech

0:41.8

companies reporting later this week and one that reported last week that we're going to

0:45.9

focus on.

0:47.3

But looking forward this week, we've got Nvidia, of course, the big one.

0:50.4

But we've got Zoom, Snowflake, we've got some others reporting this week.

0:54.1

When I think about business to business, I want to think I want to look at customer growth,

0:59.2

the customer spend, what else should we be looking for?

1:02.1

So first of all, you're spot on for every business we want to look at those things, right?

1:07.6

Because that's where the cash flow comes from, especially right now.

1:13.0

One of the things that has been very important over the last 12 to 18 months is are these

1:19.5

companies making comments about the sales cycles.

1:23.8

So during COVID, when everyone thought that work from anywhere was going to be the new

1:31.4

way, the new normal, if you will, they spent a lot of money.

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