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Ratmir Timashev
Unicorn in the Making: Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev (Part 7)
Sramana: You have a unique situation in a founder-financed company. Where do you see things going in the future? Are you going to take a traditional route and look for an exit? Ratmir Timashev: Our current vision is to continue growing as a private company. We don’t need venture capital funds to keep growing. We
Unicorn in the Making: Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev (Part 6)
Sramana: When you founded Veeam and entered this market, there were all sorts of different players in different segments of the market. You were able to create a differentiated position for Veeam. What was the process of understanding and analyzing the market that allowed you to create your positioning? Ratmir Timashev: Part of that insight
Unicorn in the Making: Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev (Part 5)
Sramana: How has the change in industry tolerance and culture affected your marketplace? Ratmir Timashev: These changes in business requirements have made the legacy solutions by Symantec and IBM less effective. Access to data should be almost continuous. You can only tolerate a few minutes of downtime and data loss should also be minimal. Everybody
Unicorn in the Making: Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev (Part 4)
Sramana: What did you do when you left Quest? Ratmir Timashev: We left in 2005 and for the next year, we took our time to look around and find the next big idea. We saw that virtualization was the new big trend. I have some good friends in the venture capital community who told me that virtualization
Unicorn in the Making: Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev (Part 3)
Sramana: How far did you take the e-commerce business? Ratmir Timashev: The good thing is that we decided to build our online store on the Microsoft Windows NT platform, which was a business operating system and the first stable server. It became Windows 2000 and is now known as Windows Server 2012. My partner became a top expert on Windows NT
Unicorn in the Making: Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev (Part 2)
Sramana: What year did you leave school to start your first business? Ratmir Timashev: I left in 1995. Sramana: In 1995 the Internet was starting to take off. What kind of business did you start? Ratmir Timashev: It was the early days of the Internet. I started that business with Andrei Baronov who has been
Unicorn in the Making: Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev (Part 1)
You have read some of the Unicorn Series pieces already: Tableau, FireEye, RightNow, Palo Alto Networks and several others. Here’s a company that gets little coverage but is performing at Unicorn levels. Sramana: Ratmir, let’s start our discussion by reviewing your background. Where are you from? What are the roots of your entrepreneurial journey? Ratmir
