Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Portworx CEO Murli Mohan Thirumale (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What does the ecosystem look like in terms of competitors? Does Portworx have competitors? Murli Thirumale: Yes, we do. I’ll give you an example of the competitive environment by giving you a few use cases so that we can talk about why our competitors are not able to do what we do. An

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512th Roundtable Recording on December 10, 2020: With Betsy Corcoran, EdSurge

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 512th 1Mby1M Roundtable Dec. 10, 2020: With Betsy Corcoran, EdSurge

Colors: Forest Fire, Miniature

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Eric Langshur, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of AVIA (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What is your assessment of the post-COVID world? What are some open problems in the post-COVID world where you would like to see new startups? Eric Langshur: It would be around virtual care. We are on track to a billion virtual visits this year. Every provider in the world has gotten that memo.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Portworx CEO Murli Mohan Thirumale (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let me double-click down on one more layer based on what you have said. Is Portworx sitting on top of the traditional storage players? Is it like a caching solution on top of the existing one? Mohan Thirumale: Yes, it’s not unlike caching, but it’s doing two things. One is exactly what you

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Best of Bootstrapping: Pura Vida Founders Bootstrap to $130M

Pura Vida CEO Co-founder Griffin Thall and his partner have turned an investment of $200 into a $130 million company. Amazing execution! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background did you have? Griffin Thall: I grew up in LA.

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Eric Langshur, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of AVIA (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Explain to me specifically how the product that you sell is applied to the use case that you discussed. Eric Langshur: If you are a healthy system executive and you are responsible for creating an online portal, for example, a digital front door for Saint Joseph’s health system.

Roundtable Recap: December 10 – Spotlight on EdTech

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Betsy Corcoran, Co-founder of EdSurge, for a lively discussion on EdTech. We then went on to discuss another one of my startup ideas from 8 Startup Ideas for the Post COVID World: Startup Ideas for the Post Covid World: K-12 Education You can listen to the

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