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Good morning, CIOs. Robert Herjavec, enterprise tech entrepreneur and one of the featured investors, or "Sharks," on the investment reality show "Shark Tank," this week was named executive director of global strategy at data management company Zetaris.
The WSJ's Isabelle Bousquestte, smelling blood in the water, used the news to get his take on future investing plans, the future of data management and more.
Highlights below. Read more here.
On why Herjavec right now is interested in an enterprise data management company and not a pure AI company.
Every wave of technology has a sexy component that most people talk about. But I think underneath that, you have the infrastructure component that has a much longer tail. I’m an Eastern European old guy. Sexy doesn’t work well for me, but longevity works well for me
On whether he is looking to invest in more tech companies right now.
I am. I would be careful with AI because there’s a frothiness within that sector right now. My view is always, just because there’s a bubble doesn’t mean there isn’t an opportunity, but you have to pick the sectors.
On that time he asked "Shark Tank" executive producer Mark Burnett why there weren't "more enterprise IT security type of deals on this show."
“Mark looked at me and said, ‘I don’t know how to tell you this, but what you do is boring to most people.’” Read the story.
Boring? C'mon! Readers, what do you think? Is IT not prime-time material?
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