# Mohit Aron

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Minimum Lovable Product

Mohit Aron has built 2 companies to $10B+ (Nutanix & Cohesity) by telling his engineers to ignore "minimum viable product" and build what customers actually love. He says you can NOT build a billion-dollar business by using the same strategy as everybody else — like giving points to engineers for b…

The Bottleneck Test

Vinay Perneti, VP of Engineering at Augment, learned the hard way that being the go-to problem solver was actually "diminishing the intelligence" of his team.  Years ago at Pure Storage, his manager's brutal feedback forced him to develop the "Bottleneck Test": a framework he uses to scale teams a…

ET in the Valley : Mohit Aron, Co-Founder, Nutanix And Founder, Cohesity

This episode of “The Morning Brief” ET in the Valley series we go inside the mind of one of Silicon Valley’s most quietly influential founders a technologist who reshaped modern data centers with a single insight: keep compute and storage together because the network will always slow you down. Host…

Mohit Aron, Cohesity & Nutanix Founder on AI Infra & Hyper-Scale Data

Mohit Aron is the founder of Cohesity and Nutanix and now he’s building Stealth AI startup. He is famous for being the founder of both. Mohit Aron built Cohesity into a multi-billion-dollar data protection unicorn backed by Sequoia, Nvidia, and others after co-founding and scaling Nutanix as CTO to…

Why Your API Is Your Moat (Mohit Aron)

Mohit Aron has spent nearly 20 years watching technology shifts play out, and his read on AI moats is blunt: the fundamentals of competitive advantage haven't changed, the tools just have. Most founders are asking the wrong question entirely. With AI agents increasingly acting as the primary interf…

The Role of CTO in AI Companies (Mohit Aron)

Most CTOs talk about AI productivity gains in the abstract. Mohit Aron, Founder of Cohesity and Nutanix, has a concrete system — one he built by taking his pre-AI coding methodology and mapping AI directly onto every phase of it. He still writes unit tests, runs two coding agents in parallel for di…

Your First Sales Hire Is Wrong (Mohit Aron)

Mohit Aron has built two companies past $10B+ valuations and is now on his third. In this episode, he walks through the exact go-to-market playbook he has run each time, starting with why the founder has to be the primary seller early on, a practical necessity before messaging has been proven in th…

Model Mayhem, NVIDIA x Hugging Face Deal, GPT-6 Astra | Pablo Torre, Mohit Aron, Akshay Narisetti, Hari Ravichandran, Matt Caldwell & Jordy Leiser, Jeff Thornburg, Charlie O’Neill, Sridhar Ramaswamy

(00:19) - Model Mayhem (13:12) - Why NVIDIA Bought Hugging Face (23:55) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (31:25) - Pablo Torre discusses his investigation into an alleged salary-cap circumvention scheme involving Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and Kawhi Leonard. The investigative journalist and host of…

E224 - The Indian Engineer Who Built Two $10B Startups From Scratch

What does it take to build two $10B enterprise companies from scratch—and then start again? In this episode, we sit down with Mohit Aron—founder of Nutanix and Cohesity, and now on his third venture—to break down the rare skill of building billion-dollar companies predictably. From Chandigarh to II…

EP: 11 The AI Layer Connecting Everything Your Sales Team Knows | Mohit Aron

In this episode, Sandesh and Chris sit down with Mohit Aron, founder & CEO of SciFin, to unpack why go-to-market data is scattered across dozens of tools, why sales still runs more on art than science, and what AI can do to fix it. In this Episode:The context gap: Why sales data is fragmented, miss…