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HOT TOPICS
- The Accelerator Conundrum
- The Startup Velocity Question
- Platform as a Service
- Man and Superman
- Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
- The Future: End of Capitalism
- Capitalism 2.0
Role Model Interview
Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 10)
Next we move on to trace Taher’s work after Securify, which is currently back to being a private company, with $9.5 M revenue in 2006 revenue, having achieved 339% growth last year. SM: Who is running Securify today? TE: The CEO is Buck French. He was actually an investor in the company from JP Morgan
Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 12)
When Maggie arrived at Citizen, one of her first goals was to develop a strong leadership team. Here she discusses her philosophy on establishing a leadership team as well as how she assembled her current team at Citizen. SM: This is probably not a good question for a public company CEO, but it looks like
Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 9)
A rather short venture for Taher results in some very impressive results. Here he details the sale of Securify. SM: You are saying you have an expert system which knows what behavior patterns are are allowed, and if the patterns match those heuristics it is OK? TE: I don’t like the word expert system because
Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 11)
The rural telecommunications market has over 1,500 telecommunications companies, many of them owned privately. Major telecoms such as AT&T and Verizon also own some rural markets, while others are private companies. Here we explore the possibilities of consolidating this market, and the strategies of the larger players. SM: Sounds like the perfect market to consolidate!
Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 8)
Taher addresses some of the unexpected impacts of the growth of the Internet, and the impact this had on network design. These thoughts lead into the development of Securify. SM: What were you doing with Securify? TE: That was mid 1998, and it was an attempt to make networks work correctly knowing the entities you
Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 10)
As a telecommunications company focused on rural markets, Maggie’s challenges are quite different from the urban carriers. When we were scheduling this interview, Maggie absolutely insisted that she would not do it on Skype: “they try to take the food out of the mouth of my babies as a competitor” … In this segment, we’ll
Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 7)
Taher continues the discussion regarding the development of SSL at Netscape, and then moving on to his next startup. SM: What did you have to do to the SSL algorithm? TE: It had security issues that needed to be fixed. It really had to be bullet proof for eCommerce. SM: It had holes? TE: Just
Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 9)
After Microsoft, Maggie moved to her current role as CEO of Citizen Communications. Here she explains the reasons for her move and provides some background information about Citizen. The consumer business of Citizen is done under the Frontier brand. SM: After Microsoft you switched to Citizen? MW: I did. I was enjoying the job I
