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Building a Unicorn from Prague: Avast CEO Vince Steckler (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: How much were they doing at that point? Vince Steckler: In 2008, they did about $18 million in revenue. Sramana Mitra: This was all self-financed? Vince Steckler: Yes. The company had actually never taken any investment into its treasury. The company, by the way, is a Unicorn. We’re worth well over a billion
Building a Unicorn from Prague: Avast CEO Vince Steckler (Part 2)
Vince Steckler: We transformed Asia from Symantec’s worst performing region to the best performing region. I drove that for three years. Then I got posted back to the States to be the number two in the consumer business. I ran the worldwide sales and all the e-commerce and online marketing for Norton. But I was still
Building a Unicorn from Prague: Avast CEO Vince Steckler (Part 1)
Vince has built a $300 million a year security software company out of Prague, with a global customer base. Fantastic story, a must read! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Vince Steckler: I’m originally from
Bootstrapping to $45 Million from Chicago: RKON CEO Jeff Mullarkey (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: You started with the model of doing value-added resellers primarily. VARs are not hugely profitable businesses as you know from your previous experience as well as earlier versions of this one. Can you talk about how the business model evolved as you made this next strategic move into the cloud data center? Jeff
Bootstrapping to $45 Million from Chicago: RKON CEO Jeff Mullarkey (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: For how long did the legal business run? Jeff Mullarkey: We still work with legal today. We were predominant in legal from, I would say, mid-1998 to 2000. We expanded from there. When we started to shift our focus to security, we became non-vertical specific. We worked with everybody at that point. Sramana
Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Craig Hinkley, CEO of WhiteHat Security (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: I’m absolutely on the same page with you. For the small to medium business segment, it has to be as a cloud service offering. It’s hard for a player to go both enterprise and SME because the go-to-markets are so different. The DNA is so different. Everything is so different. It’s hard to
Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Craig Hinkley, CEO of WhiteHat Security (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Where do you position your product? What size or scale of websites or apps are you looking to protect? Craig Hinkley: I think about it from the software development lifecycles perspective. You can think about developing your software to production where it’s now accessible to customers and partners. We have some customers who
Building a Cyber Security Company from Israel: Aki Eldar, CEO of Secure Islands (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: In 2014, all the money that you raised was from Credit Suisse Next? Aki Eldar: Only from Credit Suisse Next, which was also a vote of trust coming from a customer. Sramana Mitra: What’s the next milestone? Aki Eldar: The next milestone is we’re expanding worldwide. We have an office in the US.
