How To Get a 20 Million Dollar Pre-Money Valuation for Series A: Tableau Software CEO Christian Chabot (Part 1)

Christian Chabot is CEO and co-founder of Tableau Software. Prior to Tableau he was an associate partner at Softbank Venture Capital, where he specialized in enterprise applications. Before Softbank, Christian was CEO and co-founder of BeeLine Software, which was acquired by Vicinity Corporation. Christian started his career as a data analyst at Cornerstone Research, an

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How A Rocket Took Off: Juniper Founder Pradeep Sindhu (Part 7)

SM: What is the role of networking going forward? What does the future hold? PS: In the grand scheme of things, networking is a phenomenally important part of society’s infrastructure. It is the technology that is used to connect people and things together for the purposes of sharing information. It existed 10,000 years ago in

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How A Rocket Took Off: Juniper Founder Pradeep Sindhu (Part 6)

SM: What was going on with the rest of the ecosystem in 1999 and 2000 when you were experiencing this huge ramp? Did Cisco have much of a carrier business? PS: Cisco sales have always been higher on the enterprise side. That is their bread and butter. I also think that Cisco was late in

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How A Rocket Took Off: Juniper Founder Pradeep Sindhu (Part 5)

SM: Did segregating the problem set into a control plan and data plane slow you down as you prepared to go to market? PS: No. It actually proved beneficial to split the problem into the control plane and the data plane. The software does not need to worry about real time. Software moved packets the

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How A Rocket Took Off: Juniper Founder Pradeep Sindhu (Part 4)

SM: This was right at the time when Internet was beginning to emerge in mainstream communities. PS: Exactly. Netscape had just released its browser. I had the opportunity to see the number of Web sites and the amount of bandwidth being used. It was absolutely exploding. It was doubling every six to nine months.

How A Rocket Took Off: Juniper Founder Pradeep Sindhu (Part 3)

SM: When did you leave PARC, and why did you leave? PS: In 1995, I realized I had been at PARC for 12 years and that I had tried every possible avenue I could find to take my ideas to the market. The difficulties that I faced were the same ones that ultimately led to

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How A Rocket Took Off: Juniper Founder Pradeep Sindhu (Part 2)

SM: What was your time at PARC like? PS: I arrived in the midst of an exodus from PARC. It was a tumultuous time for the research center, but I had great fun. I worked on two primary projects. One was cache-coherent algorithms for multiprocessors.

How A Rocket Took Off: Juniper Founder Pradeep Sindhu (Part 1)

Dr. Pradeep Sindhu founded Juniper Networks in February 1996 and served as its CEO until September 1996. He has since served as the company’s vice chairman of the board and chief technical officer. From 1984 to 1996, he worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) as a member of the research staff. He earned

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