Opportunities At The Cusps: FireEye CEO Ashar Aziz (Part 4)

SM: What are the positives you can take from the first venture? AA: I am gratified now to see that our idea was not stupid. When the company was sold I sent a note to all of my investors thanking them for their support. I told them that whether we were the ones doing it

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Opportunities At The Cusps: FireEye CEO Ashar Aziz (Part 3)

SM: A $100M education? Wow! You better have learned the lessons very well! AA: You can’t get that at Harvard or Stanford! The interesting thing was not necessarily about learning what to do, rather it was about learning what not to do.

Opportunities At The Cusps: FireEye CEO Ashar Aziz (Part 2)

SM: How did you finally gain that confidence you were talking about to launch your startup? AA: It is completely fortuitous how I finally got off the ground. One of my VPs at Sun became a venture capitalist.

Opportunities At The Cusps: FireEye CEO Ashar Aziz (Part 1)

Ashar Aziz is the CEO of FireEye and a highly technical engineer with extensive knowledge of networking, network security, and datacenter virtualization. Prior to FireEye, Ashar founded Terraspring, a company focused on datacenter automation and virtualization that was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2002. Ashar spent twelve years at Sun as a distinguished engineer. He

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Anatomy of Innovation: Exodus Founder B.V. Jagadeesh (Part 8)

SM: Essentially what you are doing at 3Leaf is allowing cumulative resource pooling of servers? BVJ: Exactly. If you go back to the mainframe days you will realize it was absolutely a successful concept. You ran a single operating system on a big computer.

Anatomy of Innovation: Exodus Founder B.V. Jagadeesh (Part 7)

SM: How did you determine that was the direction the market was going? BVJ: We made a bet on the fact that security was becoming more evident after 9/11. Based on my experience at Exodus, we also bet that bandwidth costs were going to be higher.

Anatomy of Innovation: Exodus Founder B.V. Jagadeesh (Part 6)

SM: How did you plan your exit from Exodus? BVJ: Towards the end of my tenure at Exodus I started making a lot of investments in other companies. As part of the CTO duties I met with a lot of people who would come and pitch ideas. We were one of the big successes of

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Anatomy of Innovation: Exodus Founder B.V. Jagadeesh (Part 5)

SM: What year of your story are we at now? JVB: 1997. That is when we saw the hyper growth.