Appian CEO Matt Calkins - Moving At The Speed Of Change (Video)

Summary

• Appian is a software company that provides low-code automation platform to help businesses operate more efficiently.
• CEO Matt Calkins talks speed of change. Every business has recently been challenged to change.
• Transition to more cloud-based subscription revenue, favorable and unfavorable conditions for the business.

• 0:53 - Matt's background; all 4 co-founders still at Appian (NASDAQ:APPN).

  Focused on the best way to create efficiency - thinking about it through economic, not technical terms. Low-code, new way of building processes.

• 6:00: Moving at the speed of change. Past 2 years every business has been challenged to change. Process mining, workflow, automation.

• 13:00 - What humans are good at; what machines are good at (technology is supported by human decision making).

• 14:40 - Breathtakingly large TAM; how quickly it's growing.

• 23:20 - Built to be an acquirer, not an acquiree.

• 26:00 - Recent earnings - don't pay too much attention to total revenue. The growth number that matters is cloud subscriptions revenue.

• 36:30 - Disruptive trends coming. How to mitigate risk.

• 41:00 - 2022 goals.