Steve Singh will become Docker’s new CEO
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Steve Singh will become Docker’s new CEO
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Re: Steve Singh will become Docker’s new CEO
#2Surprised there wasn't also the typical "want to spend time with family" part to cover the fact that the CEO was fired and a board seat was his consolation prize.
If you want to raise $180M without a business model to become a fabled unicorn, you had better know what you're doing.
Docker just got a lot less interesting with an ex-Concur exec in charge, but it'll probably exit within 2-3 years and make the investors happy.
Re: Steve Singh will become Docker’s new CEO
#3My kneejerk reaction is that a senior leader from Concur, then SAP, is going to buzzword bingo and "enterprisify" docker into something very different. That's probably not fair though. Concur is a pretty big success story, sold for $8B, and it appears some good decisions drove that.
Re: Steve Singh will become Docker’s new CEO
#4Now we finally know the real reason for the rebrand.
Re: Steve Singh will become Docker’s new CEO
#5My kneejerk reaction is that a senior leader from Concur, then SAP, is going to buzzword bingo and "enterprisify" docker into something very different. That's probably not fair though. Concur is a pretty big success story, sold for $8B, and it appears some good decisions drove that.
Docker has been targeting enterprise use cases for a good while now. Frankly, aside from in development, it's not terribly useful until you get to a certain scale which requires a certain development model (complete separation of application and storage, different teams managing different components, etc).
Re: Steve Singh will become Docker’s new CEO
#6My kneejerk reaction is that a senior leader from Concur, then SAP, is going to buzzword bingo and "enterprisify" docker into something very different. That's probably not fair though. Concur is a pretty big success story, sold for $8B, and it appears some good decisions drove that.
I mean, the whole rebrand is still a bit of a bait-and-switch. It leaves a real bad taste in my mouth and while I may not have been the biggest fan of Docker in the past, but I am certainly going to bias away from them now, rather than simply being indifferent.
Re: Steve Singh will become Docker’s new CEO
#7Docker is being used to cure diseases, keep planes in the air, to keep soldiers safe from landmines, to power the world’s largest financial networks and institutions
Why do this?
Re: Steve Singh will become Docker’s new CEO
#8Surprised there wasn't also the typical "want to spend time with family" part to cover the fact that the CEO was fired and a board seat was his consolation prize. If you want to raise $180M without a business model to become a fabled unicorn, you had better know what you're doing. Docker just got a lot less interesting with an ex-Concur exec in charge, but it'll probably exit within 2-3 years and make the investors h…
Guesses to who would acquire it? My money is on HP or Oracle.
Re: Steve Singh will become Docker’s new CEO
#9Surprised there wasn't also the typical "want to spend time with family" part to cover the fact that the CEO was fired and a board seat was his consolation prize. If you want to raise $180M without a business model to become a fabled unicorn, you had better know what you're doing. Docker just got a lot less interesting with an ex-Concur exec in charge, but it'll probably exit within 2-3 years and make the investors h…
Guesses to who would acquire it? My money is on HP or Oracle.
or IBM
Re: Steve Singh will become Docker’s new CEO
#10My kneejerk reaction is that a senior leader from Concur, then SAP, is going to buzzword bingo and "enterprisify" docker into something very different. That's probably not fair though. Concur is a pretty big success story, sold for $8B, and it appears some good decisions drove that.
I mean, the whole rebrand is still a bit of a bait-and-switch. It leaves a real bad taste in my mouth and while I may not have been the biggest fan of Docker in the past, but I am certainly going to bias away from them now, rather than simply being indifferent.
Clever, though, to force your predecessor to do that bit of dirty work before you're announced.