Unicorn in the Making: Datrium CTO Sazzala Reddy (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: From your founding team of five, it seems like you took the CTO role. Who took the CEO role and why? Sazzala Reddy: One of the founders of Data Domain was a product manager. We needed somebody with a little bit more business experience and who could contribute more in that direction. The

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Unicorn in the Making: Datrium CTO Sazzala Reddy (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Who was your first paying customer? Sazzala Reddy: I’m not sure if it was Siemens. We had about 30 beta customers. Sramana Mitra: What happens next in the journey?

Unicorn in the Making: Datrium CTO Sazzala Reddy (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: The primary problem that you’re addressing is disaster recovery. Sazzala Reddy: That is the number one use case we found for our platform. Sramana Mitra: How did you settle into this problem domain? What led to this being the chosen problem to go solve with your founding team of five?

Unicorn in the Making: Datrium CTO Sazzala Reddy (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: How long did you work at Cohera? Sazzala Reddy: I was there for a year or so. Then I started looking around. I had a friend who happened to be in a networking company called Cosine Communications. It was a slightly bigger company. Then the market crashed.

Unicorn in the Making: Datrium CTO Sazzala Reddy (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Datrium is executing very well in the cloud-based disaster recovery space. Read on for the company’s journey so far. 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?