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Bootstrapping a Virtualization Services Company: Chris Grandi, CEO of Abacus Group (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: How has your revenue ramped from the 2007 time frame to 2015? Where are you now? Chris Grandi: We’re growing over 50% per year. In year one, we started our revenue with less than a million dollars. You grow a 100% when your revenue is smaller. Our revenue is significantly bigger now but we’re
Bootstrapping a Virtualization Services Company: Chris Grandi, CEO of Abacus Group (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What is it about the hedge fund space in terms of work flows or virtualization? What specifically is different in that space versus other verticals? Chris Grandi: There are really two things that make the hedge fund space different. One is the level of service. Because of what hedge fund managers do and
Bootstrapping a Virtualization Services Company: Chris Grandi, CEO of Abacus Group (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What was going to be the new company? What did you find that warrants doing another company? Chris Grandi: This is one thing that I always tell the entrepreneurs I speak to. You always hear about entrepreneurs who start a company when they’re super young and don’t have a lot of experience, and
Bootstrapping a Virtualization Services Company: Chris Grandi, CEO of Abacus Group (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What was the next move after Maxim? Chris Grandi: I took a pretty divergent turn. I thought that maybe I wanted to be in Wall Street. I joined the Goldman Sachs Associate program out of Harvard Business School and joined their fixed income group. I was an associate in that group specifically focusing
Bootstrapping a Virtualization Services Company: Chris Grandi, CEO of Abacus Group (Part 1)
Chris had significant domain knowledge in the hedge fund industry. He has self-financed a successful company offering to secure virtualization services to the segment with high service levels. 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? Chris
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Brian Morin, SVP of Marketing, Condusiv (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Are you trying to tell me that there is no competitor in the market? That’s kind of hard to believe. Brian Morin: Our technology is made up of two core pieces of intellectual property. One of those pieces is proprietary. Nobody else is doing it. There is a second core piece of our
Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Egan, CIO Of VMware (Part 2)
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: And the private cloud, which is your own data center, is it not a third-party data center, right? Mark Egan: We actually have two data centers. We have a third-party data center, and we also have our own data center up in Washington. So, we
Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Egan, CIO Of VMware (Part 1)
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg About VMware VMware (NYSE:VMW), the virtualization and cloud infrastructure company, delivers solutions designed to accelerate IT by reducing complexity and enabling more flexible, agile service delivery. VMware enables enterprises to adopt a cloud model that addresses their unique business challenges. The company’s approach accelerates the transition to
