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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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- Platform as a Service
- Man and Superman
- Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
- The Future: End of Capitalism
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Role Model Interview
Leadership Profile: Sass Somekh (Part 2)
Here Sass discusses his educational background, with a particular emphasis placed on his High School education which he received in Israel. Additionally, he covers the early years of his career. The disparities he notes between High School education in the United States and other parts of the world is another item of interest. In many
Leadership Profile: Tom Werner (Part 1)
Thomas H. Werner has served as the CEO and as a member of the board of directors of SunPower since 2003. SunPower Corporation (Nasdaq: SPWR) designs, manufactures and markets high-performance solar electric technology worldwide. SunPower’s high-efficiency solar cells and modules generate up to 50 percent more power per unit area than conventional solar technologies and
Leadership Profile: Sass Somekh (Part 1)
Dr. Sass Somekh recently took the time to share with me insights gathered during his phenomenal career. After some initial work with Bell Labs and Intel, he spent 23 years with Applied Materials prior to becoming the President of Novellus. At Applied, he perfected a process of enabling innovation to coexist in a large company
Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 13)
To conclude our interview, we discuss current events in the marketplace as well as the current and future expectations of Tumbleweed. SM: Why Tumbleweed at this stage of the game? TE: I love the consulting lifestyle because I can work with so many companies at a time. It is very entertaining, but you never actually
Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 12)
Taher and I continue our discussion of the security marketplace, and Taher’s vision for Tumbleweed’s product roadmap, as the company takes on its turnaround challenge. SM: Can you explain the rational of Cisco acquiring IronPort? TE: Cisco wants to go upstream. They have a lot of infrastructure equipment, and they are working on the self-defending
Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 14)
Maggie and I finish our discussion of McClathcy newspapers, and then she provides words of wisdom for aspiring CEO’s and young entreperneurs. SM: McClatchy has definitely seen a drop in advertising on the print side. MW: There has been a drop in revenue, and it has been publicly reported, especially in some of the vertical
Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 11)
In our next segment of the interview, we examine the security marketplace and where things stand today. We take a close look at the open problems, and where, according to Taher, the market is headed. SM: Secure email is a very difficult space with Microsoft and everybody else. TE: We do not really compete with
Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 13)
Maggie also sits on the board of The McClatchy Company. Here we discuss some of the market preassures facing McClatchy and what she views as the way ahead. Of course, we have discussed the newspaper industry’s woes in a fair bit of detail here recently. It’s interesting to hear how a Board Member views those
