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Patrick Walravens

Citizens JMP Securities · covers Technology

Period: Reporting periods mapped to calendar 2024 Q4 – 2026 Q3 (8 quarters).

Questions
27on tracked calls
Challenge rate
7%2 of 27 questions
Companies
6questioned at least once
Reporting periods
8with questions

These figures cover the whole profile: every tracked question, all reporting periods.

How to read these numbers

Challenge rate is the share of questions that pushed back, pressed for specifics or questioned management’s assumptions. It describes how questions were asked on the calls tracked here; it does not measure whether any view turned out to be right.

Rounding. Rates are rounded to whole percentages, so a small share can show as 0% even when some questions were challenging. The count beside each rate is exact; “none of N questions” means no question was challenging.

No questions recorded. “—” means there is nothing to calculate: no questions were recorded for that period on the calls tracked here. It does not mean there was no activity.

Fewer than 3 questions. A company-level rate is withheld when fewer than 3 questions were recorded for that company; the questions are still counted everywhere else.

Small samples. Profiles with fewer than 10 questions are marked Limited sample.

Reporting periods. Questions are grouped by the calendar quarter each company’s fiscal reporting period maps to, not by the date of the call. Periods without a calendar mapping are listed separately under their fiscal label.

Questions asked

Grouped by company, most questions first. Open a company to read its questions, newest reporting period first.

Showing 27 of 27 questions from 6 companies

AIC3.ai, Inc.11 questions · 7 reporting periods · 0 of 11 challenging
AI company page →

Calendar 2026 Q3

So you're going to invest more in a forward-deployed engineering organization. What does that mean for C3?

MarginCapex InvestmentTranscript · FY2027 Q1 →
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Directly explained the FDE investment and framed C3 Code as an offset to the need for forward-deployed engineers over time.

with federal up 138%, I think I have to start with that, which is, what was sort of the biggest thing that you won?

DemandCompetitive DynamicsTranscript · FY2027 Q1 →
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Addressed the federal pipeline and incumbent-displacement dynamics but did not name the single biggest win asked about.

Calendar 2026 Q2

for the company, churn must have been bigger than you wanted to. and non-renewals must've been bigger than you wanted.

Revenue GrowthDemandTranscript · FY2026 Q4 →
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Tom pushed back on the churn framing and Hitesh said there was no significant loss of production customers; the issue is sales execution. Direct.

you're guiding to $235 million at midpoint. Fundamentally, what happened? Where did the revenue go?

Revenue GrowthGuidance ReliabilityTranscript · FY2026 Q4 →
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Tom attributed the collapse squarely to sales execution, not market or product, and called it fixable. Direct.

Calendar 2025 Q4

explain, you know, why the business fell off by so much and then, the steps you're taking to bring it back

Guidance ReliabilityCompetitive DynamicsTranscript · FY2026 Q2 →
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Stephen attributed the falloff to sales execution and Siebel's health, but said demand is accelerating and the plan and team are in place. Direct.

how is your confidence in getting this business back to growth and profitability?

Guidance ReliabilityRevenue GrowthTranscript · FY2026 Q2 →
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Stephen said Q2 execution was strong and he is confident in the opportunity but acknowledged there is work to do. Direct.

Calendar 2025 Q3

How do you see the mix of partner-led versus direct sales evolving?

Competitive DynamicsRevenue GrowthTranscript · FY2026 Q1 →
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Tom said about 90% of business closed this quarter was with partners and C3 is amping up joint go-to-market with Azure, AWS and GCP. Direct.

Calendar 2025 Q2

how do you go about activating tens of thousands of Azure sales reps to actually deliver C3.ai, Inc.?

Competitive DynamicsCloud & AITranscript · FY2025 Q4 →
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Tom described the leverage model of pairing each C3 seller with ten partner reps and cited 600+ joint Microsoft accounts. Direct.

in February, you informed us that you'd suffered a health setback, and it was limiting your ability to travel

Guidance ReliabilityTranscript · FY2025 Q4 →
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Tom acknowledged he had to work from home to recover but said he was resuming travel, including a red-eye to Washington that night. Direct.

Calendar 2025 Q1

if you could just talk about what the health setback was, and what steps you're taking in terms of running the business

Guidance ReliabilityTranscript · FY2025 Q3 →
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Tom disclosed giant cell arteritis affecting his vision and described accommodations and Jim Snabe's support role. Complete, direct answer.

Calendar 2024 Q4

I would love to hear the history of the relationship with Microsoft and how you got it to this point.

Competitive DynamicsRegulation PolicyTranscript · FY2025 Q2 →
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Tom gave the full backstory on Judson Altoff and predicted a dramatic acceleration of federal AI adoption. Direct.

TWLOTwilio Inc.10 questions · 6 reporting periods · 1 of 10 challenging
TWLO company page →

Calendar 2026 Q2

how we should think about the timing of AI contributing more meaningfully to revenue or its current scale?

Cloud & AIRevenue GrowthTranscript · FY2026 Q2 →
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Asked by Pete on for Patrick Walravens. Khozema called it early days and gave no timing or sizing of AI revenue.

Calendar 2026 Q1

as these deployments mature, where do you see customers taking Voice AI next?

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Asked by Nick Lee on for Patrick Walravens. Thomas said Voice AI is moving beyond support into sales, seller augmentation, compliance and recording use cases.

Calendar 2025 Q3

what areas you guys feel like you want to invest in the most to help continue driving growth next year and beyond?

Innovation & R&DCapital AllocationTranscript · FY2025 Q3 →
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Khozema said the OpEx envelope is right, the Q2 investments in voice AI and RCS have paid off, and Stytch is the new inorganic step in identity.

realistically, shouldn't we expect T-Mobile and AT&T to do it at some point, too?

ChallengingCost PressureMarginTranscript · FY2025 Q3 →
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Aidan conceded the other carriers may follow and are not in guidance, adding gross margin pressure, but said profit and free cash flow dollars are unaffected.

Calendar 2025 Q2

You commented in your prepared remarks that for the gross margins, we are investing at the platform level

MarginCost PressureTranscript · FY2025 Q2 →
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CFO cited moving email off legacy data centers to cloud, a temporary double cost, plus more direct carrier connections and prepaying carriers for better pricing.

is it just that the CDP market really shifted towards data platforms like Snowflake and -- Snowflake and Databricks?

Competitive DynamicsM&ATranscript · FY2025 Q2 →
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CEO set aside the broader CDP market shift and said the Segment thesis was always intelligent communications, now realized through integrated products.

Calendar 2025 Q1

So how should investors think about competition? So when you have these big deals, how does the competition play out?

Competitive DynamicsTranscript · FY2025 Q1 →
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CRO said Twilio competes on a multi-channel platform plus Segment personalization rather than single-channel offers, supporting above-average win rates.

I was just wondering if you could share with us how those things have changed.

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CFO declined to update the figures but said the top five verticals all grew and messaging was strongest, otherwise in line with Investor Day.

Calendar 2024 Q4

how to think about the operating margin ramp from, you know, like, 17% to 18% in 2025 to the 21% to 22% in 2027

MarginGuidance ReliabilityTranscript · FY2024 Q4 →
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CFO said the 2025 guide implies roughly 17.5% non-GAAP operating margin with some accretion each year to the 2027 target.

can you maybe give us some examples of where you're using agents internally.

Cloud & AIInnovation & R&DTranscript · FY2024 Q4 →
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CEO cited support ticket deflection and AI vetting of SDR leads, improving productivity and lead quality.

DDOGDatadog2 questions · 1 reporting period · 0 of 2 challenging
DDOG company page →

Calendar 2024 Q4

what are some of the processes and the areas where you see the possibility to really drive some improvements

Cloud & AIInnovation & R&DTranscript · FY2024 Q4 →
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Pomel described AI transforming how Datadog engineers write, debug, and operate software, with improvements expected across front and back office.

do you see your efficiency as an organization overall increasing where you can just grow with sort of the same number of people

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Pomel stated short-to-mid term productivity gains are reinvested in growth, but long-term expects to be highly profitable company.

NOWServiceNow2 questions · 2 reporting periods · 0 of 2 challenging
NOW company page →

Calendar 2025 Q4

Number one was how do we monitor the agents in real-time? Number two was, how do we have kill switches? Number three was, how do we have grading agents? And then number four was red teaming.

Cloud & AICompetitive DynamicsTranscript · FY2025 Q4 →
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Amit described AI Control Tower as solving all four concerns: real-time monitoring of all agents including third-party via CMDB, kill switches for rogue agents, security auditing, and red teaming. Bill cited example of public sector entity consolidating 479 legacy tools onto ServiceNow.

Calendar 2025 Q1

there's a lot of debate about how AI might be disintermediating software as a service and you know, you were there for the last shift from on-prem to the cloud

Cloud & AICompetitive DynamicsTranscript · FY2025 Q1 →
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Bill argued AI creates a consolidation tailwind for ServiceNow since legacy departmental systems built in the 20th century can't take advantage of AI without end-to-end integration. Customers now actively want competitors displaced rather than coexisting.

MDBMongoDB, Inc.1 question · 1 reporting period · 0 of 1 challenging
MDB company page →

Calendar 2025 Q1

So was there a period there where it exceeded your expectations?

Revenue GrowthDemandTranscript · FY2025 Q4 →
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Serge said non-Atlas ARR grew mid-single digits, down from double digits, as historically non-Atlas customers increasingly deploy incremental workloads on Atlas.

SNOWSnowflake Inc.1 question · 1 reporting period · 1 of 1 challenging
SNOW company page →

Calendar 2025 Q3

do you agree with people who are observing that the frontier models are converging in their performance?

ChallengingCloud & AITranscript · FY2026 Q2 →
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Sridhar disputed model plateauing, pointing to code-quality and agentic gains and early enterprise innings.

Challenge rate by company

Every company this analyst questioned, most questions first. A company-level rate is shown from 3 questions; below that it is withheld.

CompanyQuestionsChallenge rate
AI C3.ai, Inc.110%none of 11 questions
TWLO Twilio Inc.1010%1 of 10 questions
DDOG Datadog2—Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions
NOW ServiceNow2—Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions
MDB MongoDB, Inc.1—Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions
SNOW Snowflake Inc.1—Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions
  • AI
    C3.ai, Inc. · 11 questions
    0%none of 11 questions
  • TWLO
    Twilio Inc. · 10 questions
    10%1 of 10 questions
  • DDOG
    Datadog · 2 questions
    —rate withheld: under 3 questions
  • NOW
    ServiceNow · 2 questions
    —rate withheld: under 3 questions
  • MDB
    MongoDB, Inc. · 1 question
    —rate withheld: under 3 questions
  • SNOW
    Snowflake Inc. · 1 question
    —rate withheld: under 3 questions

Activity by reporting period

Questions recorded for each calendar quarter that companies’ reporting periods map to (not the call date), with the challenge rate for that period. Periods inside the range with no questions are shown as “No questions recorded”.

Questions by calendar reporting period
Calendar periodQuestionsChallenge rateCompanies
2024 Q450%none of 5 questions3
2025 Q150%none of 5 questions4
2025 Q240%none of 4 questions2
2025 Q3450%2 of 4 questions3
2025 Q430%none of 3 questions2
2026 Q110%none of 1 question1
2026 Q230%none of 3 questions2
2026 Q320%none of 2 questions1
  1. 2024 Q45 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 5 questions) · 3 companies
  2. 2025 Q15 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 5 questions) · 4 companies
  3. 2025 Q24 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 4 questions) · 2 companies
  4. 2025 Q34 questions · challenge rate 50% (2 of 4 questions) · 3 companies
  5. 2025 Q43 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 3 questions) · 2 companies
  6. 2026 Q11 question · challenge rate 0% (none of 1 question) · 1 company
  7. 2026 Q23 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 3 questions) · 2 companies
  8. 2026 Q32 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 2 questions) · 1 company

Topics

Topics tagged on this analyst’s questions.

  • Competitive Dynamics9
  • Cloud & AI9
  • Revenue Growth7
  • Guidance Reliability6
  • Margin5
  • Demand4
  • Innovation & R&D3
  • Cost Pressure2
  • Capex Investment1
  • Capital Allocation1
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  • Regulation Policy1
  • M&A1