Morning Brief Podcast: ET in the Valley : Mohit Aron, Co-Founder, Nutanix And Founder, Cohesity
In this episode of ET’s “Morning Brief” in the Valley series, we go inside the mind of one of Silicon Valley’s most influential founders, a technologist who is reshaping modern data centers with one understanding: keep compute and storage together, because the network will always slow you down. Host Surabhi Agarwal talks to Mohit Aron, co-founder of Nutanix and founder of Cohesity, about the evolution of this idea into hyperconverged infrastructure and why the fundamentals of fundamental physics even exist in the age of cloud and AI.…Read more the data still hasn’t changed. We also dive into the forgotten world of secondary data backups, archives, testing systems, and how cleaning up this chaos unlocks new possibilities, from ransomware detection to AI-driven analysis. Now working on his third venture, he explains why sales technology is so broken and why it’s urgent to fix it. The conversation expands beyond products and companies to the Valley’s overheated AI moment, cyclical financing cycles and the stark contrast with India’s nascent deep tech ecosystem. It also provides insight into migration, accountability, and why aligning personal incentives with national goals may be the only real way to drive long-term change. Adjust.
