Still Innovating in Networking: A10 CEO Lee Chen (Part 3)

SM: What happened after Convergent? LC: I had my own company for a while, and then Bobby called me and I joined Centillion. There we built multi-service switches.

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Still Innovating in Networking: A10 CEO Lee Chen (Part 2)

SM: What kind of startup did you join? LC: I went to a company that was competing with Novell. They built a local area network for storage. At the time PCs were still relatively expensive, so the idea was to allow PC users to share storage across the network.

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Opportunities At The Cusps: FireEye CEO Ashar Aziz (Part 8)

SM: Could I summarize your challenge as solving perception versus solving pain? AA: That is a very good way to describe it. There are some proactive people who understand there is a gap.