SM: Did anybody else mirror your concept of what was essentially an Internet datacenter? JVB: Nobody had this concept. This was in 1995, at the exact same time the dot-com companies started to emerge. Hotmail, map companies, and other started to take bud. We started to become the de facto standard for hosting those companies.
SM: When you were exploring starting your own company, what resources did you have to draw upon? JVB: Obviously both of us were not known except to our personal networks. I had been in the Valley for 12 years so I had a good network. I was also the chairman of the Interrupt Engineers Conference.
SM: What did you find when you arrived in Silicon Valley? BVJ: Back in those days it was still the very early evolution of the technology. Everything was about building big systems; supercomputers, super mini-computers, mainframes, and big computers. There was no concept of desktop computing.
B.V. Jagadeesh is a successful entrepreneur and a proven leader. He was also the co-founder of Exodus Communications, a leader in the web co-location market that enjoyed a highly successful IPO. Prior to joining 3Leaf Systems as CEO, he served as group vice president and general manager of Citrix Systems’ Application Networking Group and as president
SM: Beyond IT, what you are saying is that training and learning organizations are great places to scale your account. That is where you would send your sales organization. GC: More and more companies now have someone in charge of collaboration. There are people in charge of improving communication with those new technologies. Technology people
SM: Where do you go from here? GC: We have been investing a lot in building the teams. A year ago the focus was to find the right financial partners. It has taken us more time to grow than we initially planned, which is not unusual.
SM: What else should we be talking about in your story? GC: We now have 17 employees. We moved to a new office. We used to be in a basement in Palo Alto, and now we are in San Mateo.
SM: Can you give me an example of an application Veodia is supporting? GC: We built a plug-in for Clearspace that allows you to record a video from within Clearspace. Any employee can create video and share it internally with other employees, as well as sharing or receiving videos from clients.