David Steinberg
Analyst · Needham. Please proceed with your question.
Well, thank you, Ryan. And it's funny because I just wrapped up four days at the Milken global conference where I was personally asked to host and moderate the generative AI panel for the entire Milken global conference and host the Chief Marketing Officer panel with the CMOs, Visa, Pepsi, LogicTech and other very, very large organizations. We also hosted a Zeta VIP dinner, and I was invited to so many events I couldn't attend. I did on my Monday morning call, say to the team, no, I'm sorry, my Wednesday management call we might have actually finally solved the Zeta who problem. It was really amazing to me to see how known we were and how many organizations and people were starting to recognize that. I think what we're also seeing is if last quarter, we said we were at record RFPs and record pipelines, quite frankly, we are now well above even that. We are seeing pipelines that we have never seen. We are closing deals with multinational global enterprises that years ago would have probably not displaced as we said, the legacy marketing clouds just because of the brand, most of the legacy marketing clouds In fact, all of them in the case of the transaction we announced today, were dismissed in the first round which we're not just seeing us move up the food chain. We're seeing many of our biggest competitors as they focus on their core businesses. So one of the things I like to talk about. So if you look at the core marketing clouds, or the sort of the legacy marketing clouds, years ago, they bought the assets to build those inside of tech conglomerates. Every one of those conglomerates has now bought something that dwarfs the size of those clouds, the marketing cloud. so it's not even their side hustle anymore. It's now the side hustle to their side hustle And as they think about investment dollars, in a world where they are all cutting jobs, they're all cutting costs, I promise you, they are cutting them the fastest from the side hustle to their side hustle. So we are winning, in that we see Zeta, getting through the “Zeta who” problem, while simultaneously what is traditionally big art been our biggest competitors, they're starting to fall to the wayside, in their marketing clouds, I'm not going to suggest their core businesses are not doing incredibly well and aren't game changing. But we're definitely seeing a big separation between us and them in what we do.