Enabling Ecological Data Centers: Rackable Systems CEO Mark Barrenchea (Part 3)

SM: How long were you at Oracle? MB: I worked for Larry for about eight years. I am definitely in the Larry Ellison fan club. He is one of the smartest technicians and hardest driving executives I have ever met. I think the world of him.

Enabling Ecological Data Centers: Rackable Systems CEO Mark Barrenchea (Part 2)

SM: What role did you play at Tesseract? MB: I was part of senior management and ran all of engineering. Coming into the early 1990s another team was forming to start a company called Scopus Technologies. There were a gaggle of companies going into what we termed field sales automation or a contact center; it

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Enabling Ecological Data Centers: Rackable Systems CEO Mark Barrenchea (Part 1)

Mark Barrenechea is president and CEO of Rackable Systems. Before joining Rackable he served as executive vice president and CTO for Computer Associates. Prior to CA, he was senior vice president of Applications Development at Oracle and reported directly to Larry Ellison. Earlier, he served as vice president of Development at Tesseract, which was purchased

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Engineering Algae-based Bio Fuel: Valcent CEO Glen Kertz (Part 7)

SM: Is there anything else you would like to discuss that is relevant to your company? GK: There is another project that is driving part of our company economics. That is the high density vertical growing system; we are rolling it out as a commercial product.

Engineering Algae-based Bio Fuel: Valcent CEO Glen Kertz (Part 6)

SM: It sounds like you are still in the early stages of your startup in terms of the overall balance of technology. Could you address your reasoning for doing this in the public market? GK: When I first had this idea the market was not what it is now. Back then I could not get

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Engineering Algae-based Bio Fuel: Valcent CEO Glen Kertz (Part 4)

SM: Are you the only algae-based bio fuel company in the US? GK: No, a lot have popped up. There are four or five I think are in the same ball park as we are in terms of scale, and then there are a lot of little companies with a couple of stock tanks or

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Engineering Algae-based Bio Fuel: Valcent CEO Glen Kertz (Part 3)

SM: How did you finance your initial ad campaign to allow you to obtain $2 million in sales? GK: I have some friends in the venture capital world. I showed them what I had and where I wanted to go, and they decided they wanted to join.

Engineering Algae-based Bio Fuel: Valcent CEO Glen Kertz (Part 2)

SM: What was your next step after Agristar? GK: I started my own consulting company and pursued other interests such as painting. I essentially took a break from the business world for two years, which let me think about what I wanted to do next. During that period I started developing innovative technology, some of

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