Episode
The Art of Enterprise Sale: Selling Startups to Giants with Poojan Kumar
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- The Neon Show
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- May 11, 2026
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Summary
What does it take to build a company that industry giants want to buy? Poojan Kumar built and exited two enterprise infrastructure companies, PernixData to Nutanix and Clumio to Commvault. He began his career at Oracle, where he wrote the original code for Exadata and helped scale it into a billion-dollar product line. But his real founder journey began when he left the corporate world to chase what he calls the “Discontinuity Thesis.” At PernixData, that discontinuity was the shift from hard...