Opportunities At The Cusps: FireEye CEO Ashar Aziz (Part 3)

SM: A $100M education? Wow! You better have learned the lessons very well! AA: You can’t get that at Harvard or Stanford! The interesting thing was not necessarily about learning what to do, rather it was about learning what not to do.

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Opportunities At The Cusps: FireEye CEO Ashar Aziz (Part 2)

SM: How did you finally gain that confidence you were talking about to launch your startup? AA: It is completely fortuitous how I finally got off the ground. One of my VPs at Sun became a venture capitalist.

Opportunities At The Cusps: FireEye CEO Ashar Aziz (Part 1)

Ashar Aziz is the CEO of FireEye and a highly technical engineer with extensive knowledge of networking, network security, and datacenter virtualization. Prior to FireEye, Ashar founded Terraspring, a company focused on datacenter automation and virtualization that was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2002. Ashar spent twelve years at Sun as a distinguished engineer. He

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Deal Radar 2008: Mevio

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Anatomy of Innovation: Exodus Founder B.V. Jagadeesh (Part 8)

SM: Essentially what you are doing at 3Leaf is allowing cumulative resource pooling of servers? BVJ: Exactly. If you go back to the mainframe days you will realize it was absolutely a successful concept. You ran a single operating system on a big computer.

Deal Radar 2008: EchoSign

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