Unlocking the Secrets of Early Psychology: How It Impacts Success with CEO Okta

Name: Unlocking the Secrets of Early Psychology: How It Impacts Success with CEO Okta
Uploaded: 2024-07-30T13:03:33+00:00
Duration: 22 s
Channel: Jason M. Lemkin
Description: In this interview excerpt, the Okta CEO (Speaker A) discusses how early entrepreneurial psychology—specifically the recurring belief that a product’s…

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In this interview excerpt, the Okta CEO (Speaker A) discusses how early entrepreneurial psychology—specifically the recurring belief that a product’s market isn’t "big enough"—shaped his approach to building a company. He describes the personal "scars" from having to convince stakeholders that a large‑scale solution was necessary, and notes that the eventual expansion of cloud computing provided the market size and infrastructure needed to validate those early convictions. The segment highlights the interplay between psychological bias, market perception, and technological evolution.

It is interesting that the, the whole point about the early psychology and like how it impacts how you go about things, this idea that I heard this over and over, it's not big enough, it's not substantial enough, it's not gonna be a big market. And a lot of it is just because I have the scars from when I had to really make it this big thing when we had needed, people needed to believe in and eventually it turned out the cloud got plenty big enough to solve a lot of these issues anyway, didn't it? Yeah, that was a good bet.