From Hardcore Techie to Unicorn Entrepreneur: Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of Nutanix (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: When you decided to start Nutanix, what was your understanding of the problem that you were going to go after? Did you have a clear vision of the problem you were going to solve?

Dheeraj Pandey: We had an idea based on our skillsets and passion for distributed systems. If you look at my pattern over those 10 years, I was just building distributed systems. Reliability, availability, serviceability – all these were etched into my fabric. I was like, “Let’s figure out a way to bring this out through an idea.”

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From Hardcore Techie to Unicorn Entrepreneur: Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of Nutanix (Part 1)

Inspiring story of a passionate technical founder who has built one of the iconic fast growth Unicorns in the tech industry.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?