Cleantech In Food: Purfresh CEO Dave Cope (Part 5)

SM: What are the deployment models of your first two products? DC: The Purfresh Cold Storage is integrated into existing warehouses. The Purfresh Wash is used as part of the line when fruit is harvested. Today they use heavily chlorinated water.

Cleantech In Food: Purfresh CEO Dave Cope (Part 4)

SM: When you joined the company, what was it selling? DC: It was selling boxes that were ozone generating devices to places such as the Bronx Zoo, the Honolulu Aquarium, Western Digital’s cooling tower and other people. It was purely a box which was sold.

Cleantech In Food: Purfresh CEO Dave Cope (Part 3)

SM: What did you do after BizGenics? DC: I took four years off. I love to surf and fly fish, so I did a lot of both of those. We have a house in Montana, and I surfed all over the world. I also did some consulting.

Cleantech In Food: Purfresh CEO Dave Cope (Part 2)

SM: How long were you at Marimba? DC: I stayed there for a while. I loved it, but it was a little heady. It was the beginning of the hype Internet days, and it ended up being about certain people and not very much about running a business. That ended up being a majority of

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Cleantech In Food: Purfresh CEO Dave Cope (Part 1)

Dave Cope joined Purfresh in 2004 as chief marketing officer and was promoted to CEO in 2006. Prior to Purfresh he was president and CEO of BizGenics and held a variety of executive positions for Extricity, Marimba, Illustra, and IBM. Mr. Cope holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and biochemistry from San Jose State University.

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Creative Bootstrapping To A 350 Million Dollar Exit: Nimsoft CEO Gary Read (Part 7)

SM: Essentially you are saying that CA’s vision was the enticing factor for the sale? GR: They had a very clear vision. The more people we met with and the more time we spent with them, the more their vision became clear. It was a very similar vision to our own.

Creative Bootstrapping To A 350 Million Dollar Exit: Nimsoft CEO Gary Read (Part 6)

SM: In 2004 when you merged the two companies, what was the revenue of the new entity? GR: It was just shy of $3 million.

Creative Bootstrapping To A 350 Million Dollar Exit: Nimsoft CEO Gary Read (Part 5)

SM: What was going on in the marketplace at that time? Why was there doubt that additional network monitoring software would be needed? GR: While customers had plenty of choices, many times those customers were not happy. The companies they were buying it from were not focused on customer satisfaction.