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Analyst
Raimo Lenschow
Period: Reporting periods mapped to calendar 2024 Q4 – 2026 Q3 (8 quarters).
- Questions
- 70on tracked calls
- Challenge rate
- 4%3 of 70 questions
- Companies
- 12questioned 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 70 of 70 questions from 12 companies
DDOGDatadog11 questions · 7 reporting periods · 0 of 11 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
if some people do more inference, how much more observability gets triggered by inference?
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Olivier said inference will be the dominant workload and creates observability opportunity at every layer, from GPU infrastructure to LLM and tool calls up to agent outcomes, and noted growing adoption of GPU and agent monitoring products.
How did you do it historically? So did you always kind of put in the base level and then what happened happens?
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David said the guidance methodology has not changed, using observed inputs plus the commitment-and-usage model, and Olivier added they chose to fully derisk the largest customer this quarter with the same overall conservatism.
Calendar 2026 Q1
If you think about now the non-AI category doing better, how much of that is like people like the cloud migrations again
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David attributed the acceleration to multiple factors: platform expansion, consolidation wins, and successful sales capacity ramp. Olivier added they are outperforming all competitors at scale and taking share.
in the industry, we still have a lot of like noise around that level. How do you see it in real life
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Olivier described how customers come to Datadog to unify fragmented monitoring stacks. Highlighted that even hyperscalers with unlimited resources are now choosing Datadog over internal builds, validating the platform consolidation thesis.
Calendar 2025 Q4
I assume they tried to do it with some open-source tooling, etcetera. But and actually went from, like, you know, almost paying not a lot of money to paying you more money. What drove that thinking
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Pomel explained the situation mirrors all customer lands: DIY is rarely cheaper when accounting for engineer compensation and velocity. AI natives adopt Datadog for the same reasons as all customers, just at different volumes.
Calendar 2025 Q3
How do we have to think about the nature of those? Is this kind of -- are those kind of especially the bigger ones of those kind of model builders
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Pomel described the AI native cohort as fairly representative of the space: model vendors (text, video, sound), coding assistants, infrastructure companies, and pure AI-powered applications, some new, some 5-8 years old.
Calendar 2025 Q2
How should we think about it in terms of when this goes much broader into inference, et cetera
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Pomel outlined three layers: current infrastructure monitoring of inference apps, GPU-specific monitoring products, and a new category of observing nondeterministic AI-written applications in production.
Can you talk a little bit about that ramp and where they are in their productivity curve
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Obstler confirmed successful execution on sales hiring with evidence of productivity through new logo production and pipeline growth, though ramping still ongoing.
Calendar 2025 Q1
What was the thinking process in terms of kind of showing us that upside that you kind of might expect in Q2
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Obstler explained no change in guidance philosophy; raised based on run rate with conservatism, second half unchanged due to uncertainty.
Calendar 2024 Q4
Can you see like what you see in first feedback on people looking at inference workloads and trying to have observability on them
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Pomel explained inference observability is still early with customers using third-party models, while running own inference stack is coming next.
What drives your confidence or what drives the decision to kind of think this year
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Obstler cited bottoms-up evidence from geographic white space, growing channel partner contributions, and large enterprise account momentum.
MDBMongoDB, Inc.9 questions · 8 reporting periods · 0 of 9 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q3
the strength driven by Atlas What are the factors that you are considering there, and what is driving your confidence
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Mike directly pointed to consistent 29% Atlas growth, a 300bps full-year raise, and a ~$2.3B run rate as the basis for confidence.
Calendar 2026 Q2
So what are you seeing there in terms of that kind of consolidation move towards Mongo.
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CJ characterized demand as modernization and AI-readiness migration, including from Postgres, rather than a pure consolidation play.
Calendar 2026 Q1
At your big event in January in San Francisco, what were your impressions about developer buy-in?
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CJ said the January dot local SF event drew strong builder turnout, ~70% of them non-MongoDB users, signaling growing mindshare among AI-native developers.
Calendar 2025 Q4
since next year EA is not seeing benefits from all the year. Should we anchor our numbers on the ARR performance?
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Mike gave a concrete steer: non-Atlas full-year growth is ~4%, and mid-to-low single digits is a reasonable range to model for next fiscal year.
Calendar 2025 Q3
can you help us understand then what's driving that a little bit?
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Dev credited data-driven self-serve experiments and a new motion targeting SQL developers unfamiliar with MongoDB; direct, but cautioned against declaring victory early.
Calendar 2025 Q2
we saw Snowflake kind of move and make the move towards Postgres. We saw Databricks kind of doing something there.
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Dev framed the moves as validation that the operational data store is strategic high ground for AI, and argued building organic OLTP is hard.
looking at this strong performance on the profitability in Q1, like, how do you think about this business?
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Mike gave a bullish read, a scaled $2B+ business growing 20%+ with 70%+ gross margin and a model with inherent operating leverage.
Calendar 2025 Q1
is it just a mechanical problem or like -- or mechanical situation or is there also a change in behavior?
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Serge said it is not a change in trend but a mechanical effect - a lower non-Atlas renewal base in FY26 after two exceptionally strong multiyear years.
Calendar 2024 Q4
What do you see from the big hyperscalers in terms of working with you guys and partnerships?
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Dev said relationships across AWS, Azure, and GCP are strong, with large deals closed and deep integrations, calling the data layer critical for AI.
PATHUiPath Inc.9 questions · 5 reporting periods · 1 of 9 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q3
how do you think about the workflows you guys are doing versus the workflows you kind of want to share or AI
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Challenged on whether stronger frontier AI models threaten UiPath's deterministic workflows; Dines argued AI cannot learn on the job, so enterprises still need a governed automation harness around models.
revenue growth kind of run ahead of like what we see on ARR growth. Like how do you think about that relationship
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Asked why revenue has run ahead of ARR growth and how to think about it going forward; Gupta attributed it to ASC 606 license-vs-cloud mix as more platform is sold upfront.
Calendar 2026 Q2
revenue at the moment keeps growing faster than ARR. How do we need to think about that dynamic?
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Direct: Ashim attributed the gap to 606 revenue timing and services mix, and said the two converge over a longer period.
who is doing then the probabilistic part. What are you seeing there in terms of where customers thinking
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Direct: Daniel said UiPath is model-agnostic, infusing agentic AI into deterministic orchestration with the auditability enterprise workflows require.
Calendar 2025 Q3
how is the market kind of behaving at the moment when you talk with customers
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Dines said customers span the spectrum but most now see automation as essential to power agentic initiatives, which uncover more automation.
You raised by touch more than you beat. Can you speak to what's driving that confidence?
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Gupta credited a consistent philosophy of guiding to pipeline and field data plus momentum from go-to-market and agentic improvements.
Calendar 2025 Q1
is there an opportunity to shift to more of a consumption-based model to help more tangibly align monetization to value
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Sheldon McMeans (on for Raimo Lenschow) asked about consumption pricing; Dines noted the IRS already consumes Document Understanding on a consumption basis but flagged a 30-day moratorium and urged prudence.
maybe customers waiting for more maturity around agentic AI before putting new automation use cases into production?
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Sheldon McMeans (on for Raimo Lenschow) asked about AI-maturity hesitation; Dines said customers now take a more moderate stance on AI, favoring pragmatic agentic value over hype.
Calendar 2024 Q4
there's going to be the big vendors that have like the domain data like the Salesforce or Workday or an SAP
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Daniel positioned UiPath's edge in multi-system agents spanning modern and legacy apps, distinct from in-application agents built by SaaS vendors.
SNOWSnowflake Inc.7 questions · 7 reporting periods · 0 of 7 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q3
Can you talk a little bit about what you are seeing in other regions like Europe, Asia?
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Brian said performance is not region-specific and all regions are operating well and factored into guidance, without giving regional detail.
Calendar 2026 Q2
how should we think about the guidance philosophy that you have here?
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Brian said there was no change to guidance philosophy; the larger beat reflected CoCo launching in the quarter (guidance is based on Observe behavior, so CoCo could only be layered in after a quarter of data) plus observed core-business acceleration now included for the full year.
Calendar 2025 Q4
Do you think that will impact you? And is it kind of does it drive more adoption?
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Sridhar framed zero-copy sharing as a win-win keeping Snowflake the single pane of glass for customer data.
Calendar 2025 Q3
I wanted to focus on the new customer adds. Obviously, great progress there.
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Sridhar said Europe is developing and contributing as the U.S. hunter/farmer motion is replicated.
Calendar 2025 Q2
how do you see this playing out at the moment and maybe more in the future in terms of like going wall to wall with one vendor
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Sridhar said Snowflake works with complex ecosystems while leaning into ease-of-use consolidation.
Calendar 2025 Q1
how do we think about adjacencies for your offering that you kind of might want to consider
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Sridhar said streaming and ingestion are critical areas while continuing to partner with Confluent and others.
Calendar 2024 Q4
can you talk a little bit about the acquisition from today? Like historically, you always said you wanted to do some ETL
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Sridhar framed Datavolo as a connectivity multiplier bringing more data into Snowflake.
WDAYWorkday, Inc.7 questions · 6 reporting periods · 1 of 7 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
Can you talk a little bit about is that kind of customer signing shorter contracts, there is a bit duration effect?
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Zane clarified that contract duration has been consistent. The RPO vs CRPO growth differential is simply driven by mix, more customer base renewals (which have slightly shorter duration) versus net new deals, not a change in contract terms.
Calendar 2026 Q1
one of your mandates was to kind of think about more international, international build-out. Can you talk a little bit about what you've seen there
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Rob highlighted European business with solid quarters, strong ASEAN growth, India market entry with initial deal closings, and Canadian business performing well. Expects organic agents to help reignite growth in customer base across Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and broader Asia.
Calendar 2025 Q4
if I look at the growth rates, this month, much difference between U. S. And international
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Carl highlighted all three international regions (Europe, APAC, Japan) delivered solid results, not just Europe as in prior quarters. Attributed strength to product internationalization, partner leverage, and strong talent in regional leadership.
Calendar 2025 Q3
if Paradox is $15 million is a kind of good proxy, then kind of underlying, you're actually guiding down because you beat in Q2
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Zane clarified the existing business guide would hold at $8.8B absent Paradox. Comfortable with the underlying outlook and pleased with execution. The $15M increase reflects Paradox contribution, with no synergies assumed.
on the international side, you talked about the good momentum in the U.K., Germany
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Carl confirmed strong European logos including large German customers in competitors' backyard. Highlighted continued Japan momentum and new India market entry with dedicated president, data center, and partner ecosystem buildout.
Calendar 2025 Q1
any expectations for change in go-to-market now with Rob Enslin kind of finally coming on board, and I'm thinking more international
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Carl credited Doug Robinson's 14 years and noted smooth transition. Rob already traveling internationally and leveraging deep customer and partner networks. No major go-to-market changes expected.
Calendar 2024 Q4
how do you make sure you kind of get paid for those solutions
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Carl described multipronged approach: embedded AI drives win/renewal rates, standalone SKUs like Recruiter Agent and Talent Optimization command premium pricing, and upcoming agents will be priced on value delivered.
CRMSalesforce, Inc.6 questions · 6 reporting periods · 0 of 6 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q1
How do you think about that evolution from kind of getting new customers and getting those guys up and productive
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Miguel emphasized Salesforce has 40% market share in customer domain with 4,000 production customers and no competitor matching that scale and complexity.
Calendar 2025 Q4
How how do you think about the ramping of those, and and how do you also think about productivity for those extra reps
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Miguel described 20% capacity in place today finishing at 15% enabled, with pipeline growing double digits and the agentic enterprise creating exponential monetization.
Calendar 2025 Q3
you have more sales guys you know, as Miguel said, you you the agents should help you to get more productive
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Miguel cited strong pipeline growth, H2 acceleration potential, customers refilling Agentforce credits multiple times, and high confidence in next fiscal year outlook.
Calendar 2025 Q2
The main highlight for me, if I look through the numbers, this quarter, was the strength in platform
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Marc highlighted Tableau Next built on the ADAM framework deeply integrated into Data Cloud and metadata platform, with Srini explaining the enterprise data strategy.
Calendar 2025 Q1
What was the thinking in terms of combining those two roles? And how do you see that playing out going forward
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Marc explained Robin Washington's unique qualifications and introduced the new leadership team including Miguel Milano as CRO and expanded roles for Srini and David Schmaier.
Calendar 2024 Q4
how is the discussion about how you kind of participate or work with the clients about pricing for Agentforce going
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Millham confirmed $2/conversation consumption pricing. Benioff illustrated value with a hospital call example costing $100 that Agentforce could handle for $1.50, making pricing conversations easy.
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INTUIntuit5 questions · 4 reporting periods · 0 of 5 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q3
This time last year, we talked about like 15% to 20% growth in the long run. Today, you're talking 10% to 15%
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Sasan said Intuit is resetting expectations by choice to give the team flexibility to both scale mid-market (up 39%, new customers up over 30%) and accelerate new customer acquisition at the low end. Sandeep added that desktop is nearly a quarter of GBS and is expected to decline, but the areas to underwrite for confidence -- mid-market and online ecosystem -- continue to grow with strong momentum.
Calendar 2025 Q4
How do you think about it in terms of the health of the consumer?
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Sasan emphasized innovation-driven growth over macro: 45M MAUs engaging 5+ times/month. Credit scores stabilized, card balances stabilized. Sandeep added Lightbox and innovation driving share gains regardless of macro.
Calendar 2025 Q2
that seems like a big step up. And in a way, what did you learn about visibility for that business unit?
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Sandeep attributed results to AI-driven better offer matching, higher ARPC, and innovations like Lightbox and TakeShare. Called it 'management alpha' on a different trajectory.
Calendar 2024 Q4
If you look at the payment volumes, yeah, if I heard you correctly, it was 17% decelerated a little bit
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Sasan attributed deceleration to East Coast storms and fewer days in the quarter. Impact is transient and already recovering; expects acceleration ahead.
how do you think about, like, the next iteration for how you weave that into the product
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Sasan described full platform vision of done-for-you experiences across Mailchimp and QBO. Tax season will feature dramatically streamlined AI-powered experiences focused on speed and best price.
ORCLOracle Corporation5 questions · 5 reporting periods · 1 of 5 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q3
can you talk a little bit about like how your pricing is evolving between contract pricing, spot pricing?
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Clayton said prices rise when demand exceeds supply and that component costs are not expected to change the gross-margin guidance.
Calendar 2026 Q2
the growth rate ticked down a little bit, but then you also mentioned on the call some very nice customer wins
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Mike defended double-digit apps growth at a $4.1 billion run rate with 16% deferred growth, and pointed to strong multicloud database momentum.
Calendar 2026 Q1
Is that one of these investor things? Is that getting discussed on the customer side as well
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Mike argued SaaS disruption applies to smaller single-feature players, not Oracle. Customers want AI embedded in existing mission-critical suites. Oracle has 1,000+ agents live in Fusion with banking suite alone having hundreds.
Calendar 2025 Q2
I had to go back to my model quite a bit to see 22% growth on Fusion. And the outlook looks really strong as well
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Safra dismissed tariff impact, attributed growth to strategic SaaS products rolling out and AI capabilities requiring cloud migration. Larry added integrated suite strategy is winning against multi-vendor approaches.
Calendar 2024 Q4
we're at kind of a late-stage point of the cycle where people usually don't look at back office systems. But you guys putting up like really solid growth numbers
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Safra disagreed with late-cycle premise, citing strong demand from companies seeking operational efficiency. Highlighted AI agents driving SaaS interest and booking trends accelerating significantly.
CRWVCoreWeave, Inc. Class A Common Stock4 questions · 4 reporting periods · 0 of 4 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
How does your fleet need to evolve? Because inference needs to do a lot more CPU, a lot more storage, can you do that in the existing data centers?
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Management said the platform is built as AI infrastructure serving the full training-to-inference loop, so existing infrastructure moves seamlessly into serving inference over time; answered directly.
Calendar 2025 Q3
can you speak as well about the sources of funding a little bit?
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Management said it will use the most cost-effective financing structure deal by deal, including leasing; answered directly.
Calendar 2025 Q2
as you do more inference, how important is latency and hence location of data centers?
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Management explained latency importance varies by use case, with latency-insensitive workloads suited to remote regions; answered directly.
Calendar 2025 Q1
Can you just help us understand maybe what was happening in Q1 and how we should think about CapEx on an ongoing basis?
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Management framed CapEx as demand-led and lumpy, following committed contracts; answered directly.
TEAMAtlassian4 questions · 4 reporting periods · 0 of 4 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q1
Can you talk a little bit about what you're seeing there? What's driving it?
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Mike cited strength across regions especially EMEA. Non-IT use cases growing with 60% of customers using Service Collection outside IT. AI features delivering value in AI Ops, Rovo platform, MCP servers, and CLI. Customer service management GA'd and contributing. Assets integrated into platform-wide Teamwork Graph.
Calendar 2025 Q4
how do you think about that in terms of as an incentive to move?
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Joe confirmed pricing headroom with prices below peers and competitors. DC pricing changes will fit deliberate approach to incentivize cloud migration. Explicitly reiterated 20% CAGR through FY27 and 25%+ non-GAAP operating margin FY27 with conservative risk-adjusted FY26 approach.
Calendar 2025 Q3
how do you think about M&A or build versus buy in this for you
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Mike outlined unchanged M&A philosophy: strategic fit, great teams, right timing, capital to execute. Highlighted Loom at $100M+ ARR after 2 years with AI SKU growing 100%+ YoY. Browser company thesis centers on AI reshaping knowledge worker interfaces, optimizing for SaaS apps with enterprise security.
Calendar 2025 Q1
How should we think about changes to the go-to-market because Brian coming from SAP
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Mike emphasized continuous GTM evolution rather than abrupt change. Enterprise grew from 15% to 40%+ of sales. Brian adds enterprise experience while team learns from PLG model.
MSFTMicrosoft Corporation2 questions · 2 reporting periods · 0 of 2 challenging
Calendar 2025 Q4
I was wondering about the CPU side of Azure because we had some operational changes there
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Nadella said AI workloads aren't just AI accelerators, they spawn compute and storage close by; SQL Server IaaS growth on Azure shows migrations continuing alongside AI adoption.
Calendar 2025 Q2
one thing that we're all realizing is that Copilot is the AI part, but data is becoming more and more important
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Nadella said UI remains critical for instructing and inspecting async agent work; Copilot evolves from chat to spawning agents that do real work in the background.
NOWServiceNow1 question · 1 reporting period · 0 of 1 challenging
Calendar 2025 Q1
Did there also, like, an argument that with agentic and, you know, more easier ROI use cases straight away and CRM and the business workflows, that you kind of mix will change from that perspective?
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Gina said AI will drive transformation across all workflows, but CRM's larger addressable market could give it disproportionate benefit. Reiterated long-standing expectation that CRM and HR will grow as a percent of total.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| DDOG Datadog | 11 | 0%none of 11 questions |
| MDB MongoDB, Inc. | 9 | 0%none of 9 questions |
| PATH UiPath Inc. | 9 | 11%1 of 9 questions |
| SNOW Snowflake Inc. | 7 | 0%none of 7 questions |
| WDAY Workday, Inc. | 7 | 14%1 of 7 questions |
| CRM Salesforce, Inc. | 6 | 0%none of 6 questions |
| INTU Intuit | 5 | 0%none of 5 questions |
| ORCL Oracle Corporation | 5 | 20%1 of 5 questions |
| CRWV CoreWeave, Inc. Class A Common Stock | 4 | 0%none of 4 questions |
| TEAM Atlassian | 4 | 0%none of 4 questions |
- DDOGDatadog · 11 questions0%none of 11 questions
- MDBMongoDB, Inc. · 9 questions0%none of 9 questions
- PATHUiPath Inc. · 9 questions11%1 of 9 questions
- SNOWSnowflake Inc. · 7 questions0%none of 7 questions
- WDAYWorkday, Inc. · 7 questions14%1 of 7 questions
- CRMSalesforce, Inc. · 6 questions0%none of 6 questions
- INTUIntuit · 5 questions0%none of 5 questions
- ORCLOracle Corporation · 5 questions20%1 of 5 questions
- CRWVCoreWeave, Inc. Class A Common Stock · 4 questions0%none of 4 questions
- TEAMAtlassian · 4 questions0%none of 4 questions
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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 | 10 | 0%none of 10 questions | 8 |
| 2025 Q1 | 10 | 0%none of 10 questions | 9 |
| 2025 Q2 | 10 | 0%none of 10 questions | 8 |
| 2025 Q3 | 10 | 10%1 of 10 questions | 8 |
| 2025 Q4 | 8 | 0%none of 8 questions | 8 |
| 2026 Q1 | 7 | 0%none of 7 questions | 6 |
| 2026 Q2 | 9 | 11%1 of 9 questions | 7 |
| 2026 Q3 | 6 | 17%1 of 6 questions | 5 |
- 2024 Q410 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 10 questions) · 8 companies
- 2025 Q110 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 10 questions) · 9 companies
- 2025 Q210 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 10 questions) · 8 companies
- 2025 Q310 questions · challenge rate 10% (1 of 10 questions) · 8 companies
- 2025 Q48 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 8 questions) · 8 companies
- 2026 Q17 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 7 questions) · 6 companies
- 2026 Q29 questions · challenge rate 11% (1 of 9 questions) · 7 companies
- 2026 Q36 questions · challenge rate 17% (1 of 6 questions) · 5 companies
Topics
Topics tagged on this analyst’s questions.
- Demand26
- Cloud & AI24
- Competitive Dynamics23
- Revenue Growth22
- Guidance Reliability9
- Geographic Expansion6
- Pricing5
- Capex Investment5
- Margin3
- Subscriber Growth3
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- Innovation & R&D3
- Product Launch3
- Labor Market2
- M&A2
- Macroeconomic1
- Regulation Policy1
- Capital Allocation1