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Structure Conference: A Chat with Tien Tzou, CEO of Zuora

June 28, 2010 / / 0 Comments

TienTzou-Zuora On the afternoon of the second day at Structure, I had set up an appointment to interview the founder and CEO of a growing cloud enabler, Zuora. I'd met Tien a couple of times before — last saw him at another cloud conference, back in May, the AlwaysOn "OnDemand100" event.  Tien founded Zuora after nine years at Salesforce.com — he was one of the “original forces” there, joining in 1999 as the 11th employee. Zuora-logo (More about Tien here at the Zuora management page. He even served as CMO of Salesforce at one time!)  

I wanted to have Tien tell me about an announcement they made at Structure, concerning what they call "the first on-demand commerce solution for cloud businesses": Z-Commerce for the Cloud.

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DEMO 09 – A Closing Conversation With Some Buddies…

March 5, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Graeme Thickins of Tech~Surf~blog has an impromptu, rambling, fun discussion with Steve Larsen, Erik Haus, and Chris Gammill, on the Pavilion showfloor of the DEMO ’09 conference as it winds down. The event was held March 1-3, 2009, in Palm Desert, CA.

Talk about an impromptu podcast!  This is kind of a “DEMOgang” thing, as it were…with my longtime buddy Steve Larsen, a serial starup founder and former CEO of Krugle Inc. (just acquired), which he debuted at DEMO ’06 … Eric Haus, a product manager at Zuora … and another buddy, Chris Gammill, who’s a startup advisor in LA and had previously been with a DEMO presenting company, in ’07; he was attending DEMO this time with TechZulu.com, which did video coverage.  The four of us just happened to converge to the same table in the midst of some of the Pavilion stations to unwind with a glass of wine — and we ended up having a very fun, weird, rambling bull session on everything from startups, to chemistry experiments, to motorcycles — totally ad hoc stuff, and the discussion ended up being my longest podcast recording of the whole event!  Yikes — a 10-meg MP3!  At one point, one of the guys asked if I was going to edit it, and I said, hell no, I don’t have time for that.  So, here, friends, the full, uncut version…  (In the photo, left to right: Chris Gammill, Erik Haus, and Steve Larsen.)  What a way to end another great DEMO!

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DEMO 09 – Opening Reception, Interview 3: Zuora

March 2, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Graeme Thickins of Tech~Surf~Blog interviews Erik Haus, product manager at Zuora, at the DEMO ’09 conference, which was held March 1-3, 2009, in Palm Desert, CA.
I was chatting with my longtime friend and former client Steve Larsen, CEO of Krugle Inc., when I met a former employee of his, Erik Haus, who’s now with Zuora, a company presenting at DEMO 09. Erik told me a bit about the firm and who’s behind it. (He’s pictured here on the left; Steve Larsen at right.)

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