Leveraging Data to Optimize the Business with Corsair CIO Tom Cullen

Episode notes

On the 19th episode of Enterprise Software Innovators, hosts Evan Reiser ( Abnormal Security ) and Saam Motamedi ( Greylock Partners ) talk with Tom Cullen , CIO of Corsair . Before Corsair, Tom has been CIO at several large and defining companies, including JUUL Labs, Peet's Coffee & Tea, and Driscoll's. Today, Tom shares fascinating ways Driscoll's has harnessed technology, including leveraging blockchain to trace berry provenance, Corsair's utilization of data to enhance custom configurations for customers' gaming setups, and best practices for partnering with startups. Quick hits from Tom: On keeping things simple as a CIO: "Technologists love to overcomplicate things, build a big Rube Goldberg design just because you can…I think your job as a technologist, as an architect, as a CIO in my case, is to bridge that gap between process standardization, business enablement for scale and leverage and growth in the future, while also keeping your technology stack as standard as you can." On what Driscoll's real business is: "What's interesting about Driscoll's is that they develop proprietary berry genetics and patent them. That's why the berries are so good.

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