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Building a Unicorn from Prague: Avast CEO Vince Steckler (Part 4)
Vince Steckler: It was very intriguing because it was a very engineering-oriented company. Of the 40 people, there was one person in Finance, one person in Marketing and Sales, and 38 engineers. They weren’t doing very good business because there wasn’t anyone paying attention to it. I actually joined there taking what people would probably consider
Building a Unicorn from Prague: Avast CEO Vince Steckler (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: How much were they doing at that point? Vince Steckler: In 2008, they did about $18 million in revenue. Sramana Mitra: This was all self-financed? Vince Steckler: Yes. The company had actually never taken any investment into its treasury. The company, by the way, is a Unicorn. We’re worth well over a billion
Building a Unicorn from Prague: Avast CEO Vince Steckler (Part 2)
Vince Steckler: We transformed Asia from Symantec’s worst performing region to the best performing region. I drove that for three years. Then I got posted back to the States to be the number two in the consumer business. I ran the worldwide sales and all the e-commerce and online marketing for Norton. But I was still
Building a Unicorn from Prague: Avast CEO Vince Steckler (Part 1)
Vince has built a $300 million a year security software company out of Prague, with a global customer base. Fantastic story, a must read! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Vince Steckler: I’m originally from
