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Scott Holden Keeps Leaving the Comfortable Job
After banking, logistics, Salesforce, ThoughtSpot, Brex and Vanta, Scott Holden's career keeps returning to one choice: leave scale behind, find the unfinished story, and build again. In August 2026, that instinct took him to SpaceX AI by way of a first-day twist at Cursor.
Puneet Mittal’s Quiet Bet: The Spreadsheet Era of Partnerships Is Ending
After Capital One, Wall Street and ThoughtSpot, Puneet Mittal brought a finance operator’s eye to WorkSpan - and to the messy arithmetic of companies trying to sell together.
ThoughtSpot Is Teaching Business Intelligence to Answer Back
The company that made corporate data searchable is betting that the next dashboard will behave less like a report and more like a careful analyst - one that shows its work.
Sudheesh Nair
Sudheesh Nair is the cofounder and CEO of TinyFish, a Palo Alto company building enterprise web agents that let AI navigate, research, and extract data from the web at scale. He grew up in a lower-middle-class family in a small town in India before a teacher's nudge toward a campus interview set him on a path to the United States. He was an early employee and president of Nutanix, where he helped scale the company from zero to more than $1 billion in revenue and a 2016 IPO, then served as CEO of ThoughtSpot, steering it from on-premises BI to a cloud-native AI analytics platform. In 2024 he cofounded TinyFish, which launched publicly in 2025 with $47 million in funding and counts Google among its early customers.
Benn Stancil
Benn Stancil is a co-founder of Mode Analytics (acquired by ThoughtSpot for $200M in 2023), one of the most widely read voices in the data and analytics world, and an angel investor. He writes the popular newsletter at benn.substack.com - known for its witty, intellectually honest takes on the modern data stack, BI, AI, and startup culture. After a stint as Field CTO at ThoughtSpot post-acquisition, he now runs independently via benn.company, investing and writing with signature Friday dispatches that open with 'it's friday, and...' - a ritual his thousands of subscribers recognize instantly.