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.

Anatomy of Innovation: Exodus Founder B.V. Jagadeesh (Part 4)

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.

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Anatomy of Innovation: Exodus Founder B.V. Jagadeesh (Part 3)

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.

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