Still Innovating in Networking: A10 CEO Lee Chen (Part 4)

SM: Silicon Valley is full of personalities. Steve Jobs is the most iconic, but somehow we are a very individualistic culture. Some of the most successful entrepreneurs are highly idealistic. LC: Absolutely. They are driven and focused. They can set the march and others will follow and achieve their goals.

Still Innovating in Networking: A10 CEO Lee Chen (Part 3)

SM: What happened after Convergent? LC: I had my own company for a while, and then Bobby called me and I joined Centillion. There we built multi-service switches.

Still Innovating in Networking: A10 CEO Lee Chen (Part 2)

SM: What kind of startup did you join? LC: I went to a company that was competing with Novell. They built a local area network for storage. At the time PCs were still relatively expensive, so the idea was to allow PC users to share storage across the network.

Still Innovating in Networking: A10 CEO Lee Chen (Part 1)

Lee Chen is the CEO of A10 Networks, which he founded in 2004 with a focus on innovation, networking and security. He previously held senior positions at Apple, Convergent, and InSync. Additionally, he was a co-founder at Foundry Networks and Centillion Networks. He has a BS in Electrophysics from National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan and a M.S.E.E. from San

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Opportunities At The Cusps: FireEye CEO Ashar Aziz (Part 8)

SM: Could I summarize your challenge as solving perception versus solving pain? AA: That is a very good way to describe it. There are some proactive people who understand there is a gap.

Opportunities At The Cusps: FireEye CEO Ashar Aziz (Part 7)

SM: Tell me how you solved that problem. AA: The ultimate solution was actually quite simple. The simplicity comes from the fact that there are approaches which were around in industry and academia that pretended to be whole products while they were actually subsystems.

Opportunities At The Cusps: FireEye CEO Ashar Aziz (Part 6)

SM: Let’s talk about the specifics of FireEye. What is the marketplace like? AA: When I started FireEye I was looking for the boundary of change. I was really looking for a big problem, and getting infected by malware via the Internet is a global problem. I read a lot of literature about how malware

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Opportunities At The Cusps: FireEye CEO Ashar Aziz (Part 5)

SM: How do you, as an entrepreneur, follow your own advice? How do you pursue new opportunities? AA: I actually maintain a notebook of ideas. I develop multiple ideas in parallel in that notebook. FireEye is one of the ideas from that notebook.