Personalized Alerts In The Enterprise: xMatters CEO Troy McAlpin (Part 2)

SM: What did you find? What were you looking for? TM: I found a wild, crazy entrepreneur who needed help here in the Bay Area. The company was called Intelligent Choice Refreshment Company. He wanted to create a healthy cola.

Personalized Alerts In The Enterprise: xMatters CEO Troy McAlpin (Part 1)

SM: Troy, let’s begin by looking into your past. Where does your story begin? TM: I am from the Bay Area. I was raised by a disabled single mother, and I was the oldest in the family. I had a younger sister and learned responsibility very early.

Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 7)

SM: How large did SPI become? CS: We ended at 165 people with close to $26 million in revenue by the time we were acquired in 2007.

Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 6)

SM: How did you approach the financing phase of your business? Was there an angel community in Atlanta that you were able to plug into? CS: Atlanta is not known for its angel investment scene. We knew a gentleman who had sold his company in the 1990s and made a lot of money. He believed

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Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 5)

SM: What was the genesis of creating that product? Was it your work on the pentest contracts? CS: The head of Bell South told me that if I could automate my Web assessments techniques and provide a product that he could run in-house, he would purchase it from me.

Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 4)

SM: Your first real job, as a teenager, involved securing online banking products? CS: That was when I got involved with real security work. I started going through security techniques and examining exploits. At the time, there was a very small company called ISS that was also based out of Atlanta. They found me and

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Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 3)

SM: By 1994 the Internet was getting started. CS: Yes, folks like AOL were big at that time. I was still reading on DBS, and I was hooking up with local groups. CompuServe opened up a whole new world by allowing us to publish text files and learned knowledge by posting into newsgroups that were

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Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 2)

SM: In the end, your parents did you a favor by taking away the television and forcing you into something more productive. CS: My father took a particularly interesting approach to my activities. He helped me to make my first fake ID. I wanted to make a fake ID, and I downloaded all the items

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