Where the open-source database community meets: Secure your spot at PerconaLive.com
Back to all talks

Your platform team has no story, and that's why you have no budget

Event: NDC London 2027

Location: London

Room: Room 3

Dates: January 25, 2027 – January 29, 2027

Presentation: January 29, 2027 , 13:40

Link: On event website

Speaker: Valeria Bogatyreva

Platform teams are product teams that never got a product marketer. They have users (internal developers), a competitor (every team building it themselves, or going straight to AWS), a buyer (the CFO or CTO) and a renewal - the annual budget cycle. They run all of that on zero positioning, zero segmentation, and zero proof. So at budget time they walk in with a list of things they did, and a vendor walks into the same meeting with a story about what a business gets. The vendor wins. Not because the platform is worse, but because it was never positioned.

My talk teaches four GTM frameworks, each translated into a platform-team artifact they can build on Monday.

Event

Speaker card

Your platform team has no story, and that's why you have no budget

Speakers

Valeria Bogatyreva

Valeria Bogatyreva

Valeria works closely with community users of PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB, analyzing their adoption patterns and demonstrating the transformative value open source databases bring to businesses. Her understanding of the technical and business aspects of multi-model database capabilities and extensibility helps her articulate its benefits to C-level executives and other key stakeholders.

View full profile ›