Cloud Wars
  • Home
  • Top 10
  • CW Minute
  • CW Podcast
  • Categories
    • AI and Copilots
    • Innovation & Leadership
    • Cybersecurity
    • Data
  • Member Resources
    • Cloud Wars AI Agent
    • Digital Summits
    • Guidebooks
    • Reports
  • About Us
    • Our Story
    • Tech Analysts
    • Marketing Services
  • Summit NA
  • Dynamics Communities
  • Ask Copilot
Twitter Instagram
  • Summit NA
  • Dynamics Communities
  • AI Copilot Summit NA
  • Ask Cloud Wars
Twitter LinkedIn
Cloud Wars
  • Home
  • Top 10
  • CW Minute
  • CW Podcast
  • Categories
    • AI and CopilotsWelcome to the Acceleration Economy AI Index, a weekly segment where we cover the most important recent news in AI innovation, funding, and solutions in under 10 minutes. Our goal is to get you up to speed – the same speed AI innovation is taking place nowadays – and prepare you for that upcoming customer call, board meeting, or conversation with your colleague.
    • Innovation & Leadership
    • CybersecurityThe practice of defending computers, servers, mobile devices, electronic systems, networks, and data from malicious attacks.
    • Data
  • Member Resources
    • Cloud Wars AI Agent
    • Digital Summits
    • Guidebooks
    • Reports
  • About Us
    • Our Story
    • Tech Analysts
    • Marketing Services
    • Login / Register
Cloud Wars
    • Login / Register
Home » Cloud Wars CEO of the Year: Thomas Kurian of Google Cloud | Our Interview
Cloud

Cloud Wars CEO of the Year: Thomas Kurian of Google Cloud | Our Interview

Cloud Wars LiveBy Cloud Wars LiveDecember 10, 2019Updated:December 3, 20213 Mins Read
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email
To adjust the volume hover the cursor over the volume bar
Share
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email
Thomas Kurian is the Cloud Wars CEO of the Year for 2019.

In just his first year at the helm, Kurian has helped fashion Google Cloud into a powerhouse that has not only all of the requisite capabilities of a world-class vendor but also leading skills and technologies in ML, AI, analytics, cybersecurity, hybrid cloud and more. But the CEO’s truly breakthrough achievement has been in harnessing that massive set of assets—plus others from across Google—to do not only great engineering, but to dazzle and delight customers facing truly existential and time-sensitive challenges.

I sat down with the Google Cloud CEO to talk through his incredible year.

In the interview: Thomas says that Google started the year determined to make the organization dramatically more customer-centric. Of course, helping Google Cloud customers deliver seamless experiences isn’t one-size-fits-all. For example, Thomas says, for a financial institution, are there better fraud detection solutions? If you talk to logistics and manufacturing companies, how can you optimize the location of the fleet?

Google Cloud solutions are about helping customers save money and do more with less. But they also have a loftier goal in mind. According to Thomas, it’s about creating that magic moment with a customer.

Thomas and I then turn to the pace of change in the world today. Thomas talks us through Google’s approach to helping customers navigate that change: namely, to create elegant solutions that help them improve the experience of all brand touch points in the easiest possible way. He says Google wants to enable organizations to be bold and brave – and to not feel afraid of ever-changing tech.

Throughout our conversation, Thomas and I touch on a number of Google Cloud customer examples. Whether it’s a hospital or a supply-chain manager, he says that he’s getting amazing feedback around how Google Cloud is helping to accelerate the pace of change and innovation.

Finally, Thomas shares his outlook on how Google Cloud can maintain its persistent evolution and expansion, while remaining patient. Thomas compares the task to running a marathon. Runners have lots of time between their big races, but they still have to to wake up every day prepared to work hard. So too with Google, he says: you have to be patient, but also have a sense of urgency and strong motivation.

Congratulations to Thomas and to Google Cloud for earning the designation of Cloud Wars CEO of the Year for 2019! Read more about why we picked Thomas.

You can also stream the audio-only version of this episode here:

Highlights

'We start with the customer. We want to… bring the expertise that we have. But that expertise has to be matched with empathy with what they're facing.' – Thomas Kurian #CloudWars Click To Tweet 'Our goals are to make sure that we can provide, through our capabilities in data, analytics, machine learning, new solutions that can change how an organization functions in a fundamental way.' – Thomas Kurian #CloudWars Click To Tweet 'We are blending and balancing the need to be patient in the long term with urgency every day.' – @GoogleCloud CEO Thomas Kurian #CloudWars Click To Tweet




RECOMMENDED READING

The CEO of the Year Is Google Cloud’s Thomas Kurian

Can Google Cloud Beat Microsoft? Could Salesforce + IBM? Or Amazon + SAP?

Watch Out, Microsoft and Amazon: Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian Plans To Be #1

Inside Google Cloud’s Resurgence: 10 Key Messages from CEO Thomas Kurian

Why Google Cloud Extended Partnership with VMware: The Thomas Kurian Effect

Inside Google Cloud’s Breakout $2B Quarter: 10 Key Insights

CEO Cloud Wars Cloud Wars Archive Cloud Wars Podcast Google Cloud Videos
Share. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email
Cloud Wars Live

Related Posts

Snowflake Follows 34% RPO Spike with AI Data Cloud New-Product Blitz

June 5, 2025

How ServiceNow and EY Use AI to Merge Brand and Demand in B2B Marketing

June 5, 2025

AI Agent Interoperability: Community Project Details MCP Vulnerabilities, Enterprise Security Measures

June 5, 2025

Snowflake’s 1-2 Combo: RPO Jumps 34%, Then AI/Data Product Blitz

June 5, 2025
Add A Comment

Comments are closed.

Recent Posts
  • Snowflake Follows 34% RPO Spike with AI Data Cloud New-Product Blitz
  • How ServiceNow and EY Use AI to Merge Brand and Demand in B2B Marketing
  • AI Agent Interoperability: Community Project Details MCP Vulnerabilities, Enterprise Security Measures
  • Snowflake’s 1-2 Combo: RPO Jumps 34%, Then AI/Data Product Blitz
  • AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Security, Microsoft Copilot Partnership Insights from Zenity’s Michael Bargury

  • Ask Cloud Wars AI Agent
  • Tech Guidebooks
  • Industry Reports
  • Newsletters

Join Today

Most Popular Guidebooks

Accelerating GenAI Impact: From POC to Production Success

November 1, 2024

ExFlow from SignUp Software: Streamlining Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations and Business Central with AP Automation

September 10, 2024

Delivering on the Promise of Multicloud | How to Realize Multicloud’s Full Potential While Addressing Challenges

July 19, 2024

Zero Trust Network Access | A CISO Guidebook

February 1, 2024

Advertisement
Cloud Wars
Twitter LinkedIn
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Get In Touch
  • Marketing Services
  • Do not sell my information
© 2025 Cloud Wars.

Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.

  • Login
Forgot Password?
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.