September 7, 2017
Isn’t it funny that you do not realize how quickly and imperceptibly time slips away? You blink, and your newborn baby girl is suddenly twelve and talking about boys. By the way, to all prospective suitors, I carry in my trunk at all times a shovel and a bag of lye – just saying. Anyway, […]
August 29, 2017
We have all played the word association game at one point in time or another. For those unfamiliar with the premise, here is how it works; I give a word You tell me what immediately comes to mind when you see or hear that word Pretty straight forward, so let’s play. Word: IBM “THINK” ENIAC […]
September 9, 2016
Right out of the gate, I want to clarify an important point. I would rather walk down a dark alley at midnight in the worst part of town with $100 bills hanging out of my pocket, than invest in the stock market. In other words, my money is safer in the dark alley than it is […]
November 11, 2015
YES! I just wanted to remove the mystery or any possible doubt surrounding what my answer would be to the question “if Coupa goes public, will it ruin the company?” By the way, what prompted the question (and this post), was a very recent Bloomberg interview with Coupa CEO Rob Bernshteyn. By the way – and I […]
February 13, 2015
In December I wrote a post titled IBM’s plans to corner or corral the cloud – it’s all a matter of governance based on my interview with IBM’s Pete Wharton. Wharton talked about the company’s “plan is to create an ecosystem of technology partners to extend IBM’s service capabilities to its customers.” So here is the question; […]
February 11, 2015
In announcing the launch of Procurement Insights’ New Wave Company program in 2014, I had made frequent references to the blog’s early days in which I focused on covering companies I believed were going to one day become major players. In 2010, I interviewed Rob Bernshteyn on my radio show, in which Coupa was featured as being one of […]
April 16, 2014
As someone who has from the very beginning loved all things social media whether it be Internet radio and television, chat rooms and webinars or social networking forums, when I received the e-mail inviting me to tune into the Live Ustream broadcast of Coupa Inspire ’14 I was immediately interested. Let’s face it, while face-to-face […]
July 14, 2010
Whenever I am contacted by a vendor for a “pre” press release briefing, I always go into the discussion with one part interest, one part cynicism and one part optimism. The interest of course is part of my natural curiosity about almost anything – which is why I guess I enjoy hosting a talk radio […]
What is Coupa Software’s former CEO & Chairman, Rob Bernshteyn legacy?
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