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Bringing Banking To The Cell Phone Masses : Obopay CEO Carol Realini (Part 1)
What do you do when you have had a wildly successful career and are happily retired? If you are Carol Realini you spend some time doing global humanitarian work and then you start a new business venture! Carol, CEO and founder of Obopay, has found not only a second career but also a potential opportunity
Right Technology, Right Time: Opportunistic Ocarina CEO Murli Thirumale (Part 8)
SM: Are your sales initially going to be direct? MT: Initially yes. I really believe that is the only way to do it initially, and probably the best way overall. I will mention that we have had a lot of partner interest so I am not throwing that option out the door. If you think
Right Technology, Right Time: Opportunistic Ocarina CEO Murli Thirumale (Part 7)
SM: When you started the company you identified the problem. After that what was the evolution of building the company? MT: Let’s talk about the customer validation part because that was in the beginning. We built a proof of concept, and while we were building it we went out and hired a third party storage
Right Technology, Right Time: Opportunistic Ocarina CEO Murli Thirumale (Part 6)
SM: You are not alone in the market, but I think you are going after a niche which has been ignored somewhat. MT: Yes. We mentioned earlier the WAN concepts, where people are compressing the data because of the narrow pipes. Companies have done it for backup solutions as well. That is a huge sub-category
Right Technology, Right Time: Opportunistic Ocarina CEO Murli Thirumale (Part 5)
SM: Let’s talk about Ocarina. What is the genesis and why? MT: Once I knew that Citrix was doing well I was read to turn it over to somebody else. I asked the CIO of Citrix what his top three problems were. Application deployment was number one on his list. As far as I am
Right Technology, Right Time: Opportunistic Ocarina CEO Murli Thirumale (Part 4)
SM: The day 9/11 happened I was at your office working on a consulting engagement. That seemed like the worst time in history. You did the whole Net6 story in the middle of that crazy time. MT: The more I think about it, in one sense it was. We started the company after the dot
Right Technology, Right Time: Opportunistic Ocarina CEO Murli Thirumale (Part 3)
SM: What year did you sell? MT: We sold it in 2005. Today the business is number two in revenue behind Juniper in the SSL VPN market. When we started we were probably the 30th company to enter that space. We were definitely not early to market, we were very late to the market. However,
Right Technology, Right Time: Opportunistic Ocarina CEO Murli Thirumale (Part 2)
SM: What was the idea of Net6. MT: The original premise is very straight forward. We launched during the peak of the dot com boom. Back then it was all about grabbing eyeballs, and the next class of eyeballs to be grabbed was mobile eyeballs. Most companies founded in that timeframe focused on building middleware.