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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Journey: Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry (Part 7)
Sramana: What was the premise behind Zscaler? Jay Chaudhry: We wanted to offer web security in the cloud. We also recognized that the world would be increasingly mobile. We also needed to do integration of point products. We did not need one for URL filtering, one for caching, one for antivirus, and one for DLP.
A Serial Entrepreneur’s Journey: Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry (Part 6)
Sramana: At some point you did sell your first company to Verisign. What came next? Jay Chaudhry: I stayed with Verisign for a while. I left in late 1999 after 18 months, although my obligation was only 12 months. I was ready to do more startups. I was driven by a few things. First, I
A Serial Entrepreneur’s Journey: Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry (Part 5)
Sramana: Tell us about the first offer to buy your company. How was the proposal made and how did you evaluate it? Jay Chaudhry: The CEO of an existing public company called me up one day out of the blue. He told me he wanted to buy my company, and I told him that I
A Serial Entrepreneur’s Journey: Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry (Part 4)
Sramana: After you were unable to get VC funding, how did you finance the company? Jay Chaudhry: My wife and I talked and we decided to put our life savings on the line. We figured that if our business was successful then we would have fulfilled the dream, and if it failed then we could
A Serial Entrepreneur’s Journey: Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry (Part 3)
Sramana: How big was this new company that you joined? Jay Chaudhry: They had about 130 people in it and I became the number 2 man handling all the marketing and some of the BD functions. This was a wonderful experience. I was able to put all the lessons I had learn up to that
A Serial Entrepreneur’s Journey: Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry (Part 2)
Sramana: Did you try to move to a sales and marketing position in the startup company you were with, or were you hoping to get a position with a larger company? Jay Chaudhry: I was hoping to get with a more established company, but I was still in Cincinnati. I sent an email to the
A Serial Entrepreneur’s Journey: Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Jay Chaudhry is the founder and CEO of Zscaler, an enterprise cloud security company. He is an innovator and trendsetter who has founded and funded several successful companies, including Zscaler, AirDefense, CipherTrust, CoreHarbor, Air2Web, and SecureIT. Chaudhry’s 25 years of sales, marketing and engineering experience also
Bootstrapping Using Services: Krish Kupathil, CEO, AgreeYa Mobility (Part 7)
Sramana: Right now your product offering is Microsoft-centric. Do you see that remaining your strategic outlook? Krish Kupathil: We will definitely continue to support and develop around enabling access to Microsoft products. We will also look at other technologies for which we can enable corporate access. We are a startup, and we are more opportunistic.