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Michael Weening

Michael Weening

CEO of Calix Inc.

Aug 26, 2026

5:47
How are you able to do that?
5:50
So this really comes down to the innovator's dilemma.
5:53
If you've ever read that book, which I'm a big believer in Christensen's work, it was really around you have to have a vision for what's the value you can deliver.
6:02
And in the end, the reason why Carl brought me in and started to go down this path is because of the fact that he saw the opportunity that the democratization of access to technology that clouds brought, like you really, if you drop back 10 years ago, that was where clouds started to go like mad and what it changed is that in the past you had to be a really big company with a large i.t organization and a massive budget to build these technologies or get access to them and you know as simple as if i want to do an sap implementation or a siebel i had to buy massive amounts of servers i had to have armies of consultants and you think about a small company that would be very difficult to be successful.
6:43
So the way he saw cloud was the way I saw cloud, which is it really provides access to everybody because in essence, you do have to do integration work, but you don't have to worry about your data center and all those other costs.
6:57
You just turn this technology on and more importantly, on a regular cadence, you're actually getting access to the next step and the next step and the next step because those cloud vendors, what their ultimate value proposition is, is that I can constantly deliver innovation that just works.
7:12
and turns on.

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17:12
Can you talk about what is these features that you're offering and how's your AI rolling out in your platform?

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