Sramana Mitra: Who are the leaders in those six quadrants? If you look at computer file sharing, who is the leader, in your opinion? Jesse Lipson: I think on the consumer side, the ad hoc file sharing , companies like YouSendIt have specialized in that area. On the consumer storage and backup solutions, Dropbox tends
Sramana Mitra: Between 2005 and 2011, at the time of the acquisition by Citrix, how did the revenue run? Jesse Lipson: We were definitely experiencing triple-digit growth every year. We were in the Inc. 500 the last two years. We actually ranked above some of the heavily venture-funded companies like Box.net and YouSendIt. We were
File sharing in the business world has become as common as sending email with attachments. In 2005, when Jesse Lipson launched ShareFile, that was not the case. Lipson founded ShareFile in the days before cloud computing was all the rage. By the time Citrix acquired ShareFile in October 2011, the 100% bootstrapped company had grown
Sramana Mitra: What you’re describing is a time not too far in the future in the use case that you talked about, Tommy, in that you want to organize a sales conference with a bunch of customers. You want to invite them to this sales conference, and you need to pull data from Salesforce.com. Potentially,
Sramana Mitra: What’s the revenue level of your company? Matthew J. Schitz: Revenues we don’t release, I’m sorry. We’re a privately held company. But our revenues are significant. And they’re growing quickly. We’re growing at 50% quarter over quarter right now. SM: Just give us a range. Is it a $50 million company, a $100
SM: There are many classifications of big data and real time. At this point, that’s one of the reasons why there’s so much activity in the space right now. AZ: Yes. Big data can be sold to enterprises because no matter who you are, you don’t have to be a Facebook anymore to have an