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Unicorn in the Making: Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev (Part 6)
Sramana: When you founded Veeam and entered this market, there were all sorts of different players in different segments of the market. You were able to create a differentiated position for Veeam. What was the process of understanding and analyzing the market that allowed you to create your positioning? Ratmir Timashev: Part of that insight
Building A Profitable, Steady Growth Subscription Business: Expensify CEO David Barrett (Part 1)
VCs in Silicon Valley want financial levers that allow you to grow with a hockey-stick curve. Expensify doesn’t have that. In my opinion, however, they have built an excellent, profitable, steady growth subscription business that has an attractive viral characteristic. The business, at some point, may accelerate naturally, but as David notes, the levers are
Unicorn in the Making: Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev (Part 5)
Sramana: How has the change in industry tolerance and culture affected your marketplace? Ratmir Timashev: These changes in business requirements have made the legacy solutions by Symantec and IBM less effective. Access to data should be almost continuous. You can only tolerate a few minutes of downtime and data loss should also be minimal. Everybody
Unicorn in the Making: Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev (Part 4)
Sramana: What did you do when you left Quest? Ratmir Timashev: We left in 2005 and for the next year, we took our time to look around and find the next big idea. We saw that virtualization was the new big trend. I have some good friends in the venture capital community who told me that virtualization
Unicorn in the Making: Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev (Part 3)
Sramana: How far did you take the e-commerce business? Ratmir Timashev: The good thing is that we decided to build our online store on the Microsoft Windows NT platform, which was a business operating system and the first stable server. It became Windows 2000 and is now known as Windows Server 2012. My partner became a top expert on Windows NT
Unicorn in the Making: Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev (Part 2)
Sramana: What year did you leave school to start your first business? Ratmir Timashev: I left in 1995. Sramana: In 1995 the Internet was starting to take off. What kind of business did you start? Ratmir Timashev: It was the early days of the Internet. I started that business with Andrei Baronov who has been
Unicorn in the Making: Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev (Part 1)
You have read some of the Unicorn Series pieces already: Tableau, FireEye, RightNow, Palo Alto Networks and several others. Here’s a company that gets little coverage but is performing at Unicorn levels. Sramana: Ratmir, let’s start our discussion by reviewing your background. Where are you from? What are the roots of your entrepreneurial journey? Ratmir
Building a Global Technology Company from Colombia: Ricardo Villadiego, CEO of Easy Solutions (Part 7)
Sramana: So one of the key value points is that you can provide a platform solution as opposed to various point solutions. Do you offer incremental access to the platform? Ricardo Villadiego: Clients can start with one product and have the aspiration to implement the whole platform. The company was built around the crossover concept. We