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Analyst
Patrick Walravens
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
Calendar 2026 Q3
So you're going to invest more in a forward-deployed engineering organization. What does that mean for C3?
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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
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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?
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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?
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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.?
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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
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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
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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.
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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
Calendar 2026 Q2
how we should think about the timing of AI contributing more meaningfully to revenue or its current scale?
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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?
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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?
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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
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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?
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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?
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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
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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.
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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
Calendar 2024 Q4
what are some of the processes and the areas where you see the possibility to really drive some improvements
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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
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.
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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
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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
Calendar 2025 Q1
So was there a period there where it exceeded your expectations?
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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
Calendar 2025 Q3
do you agree with people who are observing that the frontier models are converging in their performance?
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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.
| Company | Questions | Challenge rate |
|---|---|---|
| AI C3.ai, Inc. | 11 | 0%none of 11 questions |
| TWLO Twilio Inc. | 10 | 10%1 of 10 questions |
| DDOG Datadog | 2 | —Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions |
| NOW ServiceNow | 2 | —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 |
- AIC3.ai, Inc. · 11 questions0%none of 11 questions
- TWLOTwilio Inc. · 10 questions10%1 of 10 questions
- DDOGDatadog · 2 questions—rate withheld: under 3 questions
- NOWServiceNow · 2 questions—rate withheld: under 3 questions
- MDBMongoDB, Inc. · 1 question—rate withheld: under 3 questions
- SNOWSnowflake 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”.
| Calendar period | Questions | Challenge rate | Companies |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q4 | 5 | 0%none of 5 questions | 3 |
| 2025 Q1 | 5 | 0%none of 5 questions | 4 |
| 2025 Q2 | 4 | 0%none of 4 questions | 2 |
| 2025 Q3 | 4 | 50%2 of 4 questions | 3 |
| 2025 Q4 | 3 | 0%none of 3 questions | 2 |
| 2026 Q1 | 1 | 0%none of 1 question | 1 |
| 2026 Q2 | 3 | 0%none of 3 questions | 2 |
| 2026 Q3 | 2 | 0%none of 2 questions | 1 |
- 2024 Q45 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 5 questions) · 3 companies
- 2025 Q15 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 5 questions) · 4 companies
- 2025 Q24 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 4 questions) · 2 companies
- 2025 Q34 questions · challenge rate 50% (2 of 4 questions) · 3 companies
- 2025 Q43 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 3 questions) · 2 companies
- 2026 Q11 question · challenge rate 0% (none of 1 question) · 1 company
- 2026 Q23 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 3 questions) · 2 companies
- 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