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From Hardcore Techie to Unicorn Entrepreneur: Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of Nutanix (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: When did you reach some level of cruising altitude? What year would that be? Dheeraj Pandey: We were still the fastest to half-billion in 2015. Along the way, there were jitters. There’s always turbulence. In 2015, there was turbulence when the Intel issue came up. They had a massive number of bugs on
From Hardcore Techie to Unicorn Entrepreneur: Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of Nutanix (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What was the size of your Blumberg Capital round? What milestones were you able to achieve with that? Dheeraj Pandey: It was a million and a half. Word spread out that three Aster Data people had started a company. Lightspeed came within 10 months and we raised a $10 million round and converted
From Hardcore Techie to Unicorn Entrepreneur: Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of Nutanix (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Going from a techie to an entrepreneur, I presume you did a lot of founder-led selling. What was that transition like? Dheeraj Pandey: One is just humanism. Business is about people. You have to connect with people. Difficult words like negotiation – if you replace this with building trust, it’s much easier. People
From Hardcore Techie to Unicorn Entrepreneur: Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of Nutanix (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: When you decided to start Nutanix, what was your understanding of the problem that you were going to go after? Did you have a clear vision of the problem you were going to solve? Dheeraj Pandey: We had an idea based on our skillsets and passion for distributed systems. If you look at
From Hardcore Techie to Unicorn Entrepreneur: Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of Nutanix (Part 1)
Inspiring story of a passionate technical founder who has built one of the iconic fast growth Unicorns in the tech industry. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?
Billion Dollar Unicorns: Nutanix Gives VMWare Tough Competition
Today, most IT functions of organizations are moving away from siloed service providers to a consolidated services provider. This has led to the evolution of the hyperconverged infrastructure where compute and storage capabilities are integrated so that they can run adjacent to each other on the same physical hardware. Billion Dollar Unicorn club member Nutanix is
