The Startup Inside IBM with Sachin Agarwal

Published: Aug. 18, 2020, 10 a.m.

Sachin Agarwal is the worldwide product management lead at IBM Aspera. He\u2019s also an organizer at Empower Platform and the founder and CEO of Braid, a project management solution built inside Gmail, Google Calendar, and Slack. Previously, Sachin worked as a principal product manager at LaunchDarkly, vice president of product and operations at Nylas, and director of financials product management and strategy at Oracle, among other positions.\n\nJoin Corey and Sachin as they discuss what it\u2019s like to work at Aspera, the startup inside the larger IBM behemoth; the lessons learned from the recent IBM Cloud outage; why Sachin tends to leave companies every two years; what the Red Hat acquisition means for IBM and why Sachin believes IBM has done a great job of letting Red Hat be Red Hat; how IBM prides itself on client service and strives to take care of customers on an individual basis; how \u201clegacy\u201d is code for \u201cit makes money;\u201d and more.