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At his core, John Colgrove, aka "Coz," doesn't consider himself an entrepreneur. He sees himself as an engineer who loves to build things. But despite that, he is the Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Pure Storage, a company that uncomplicates data storage—and has a market cap over $11B. Coz co-founded Pure Storage in 2009 to empower every organization to get the most from their data and has grown the business to over 11,000 enterprise customers. He spent 20-years at Veritas Software and holds over 170 patents in computer system design. Coz shares why he hired engineers outside of the storage industry, how to maintain a 10x mentality as you scale, and why hard drives will be a thing of the past.
Dennis Shultz has played a role at multiple big tech giants for more than 25 years. From Rackspace, Samsung, and Dell to his current role at Microsoft, he has taken many career opportunities that have come his way. Another significant role that Dennis plays is the Executive Director for Blacks in Technology. Today, Alan and Dennis discuss career changes, lessons learned, and how being black impacted Dennis in these big-tech roles. Tune in as Dennis shares advice from his experiences. IN THIS EPISODE: [04:42] Dennis talks about factors of success and failure he experienced in his roles [09:05] Decisions that drove Dennis to change careers [17:58] How Dennis got involved in the Blacks in Technology Foundation [21:32] Dennis shares about challenges of being a black man in technology [27:36] Details about Bitcon 2022 [32:02] Advice from Dennis on what to do and what not to do in a career KEY TAKEAWAYS: It is okay to move jobs and have multiple careers. It can be hard to disappoint people, but you have to consider yourself first when considering moving careers. Know yourself and be confident in what you can do. Be intentional about your decisions. You need other people. Mentors can help you and it is better to lean on others than try to do it alone. RESOURCE LINKS SYCK Podcast Dennis Shultz LinkedIn Blacks in Technology Website Bitcon Information When They Win, You Win book mentioned on Amazon BIO: Dennis Schultz is the Executive Director of the Blacks In Technology Foundation, an organization that boasts the largest network for Black technology professionals with over 65 chapters in 17 countries. Dennis has over 25 years of experience in the technology industry serving in a variety of roles including, enterprise sales, business development, customer success, and consulting. Dennis' experience includes time at tech's most respected brands such as Dropbox, Gartner, Samsung, Dell, Lenovo, Rackspace Technology, VERITAS Software, APC, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise to name a few. Currently Dennis works at Microsoft helping major corporations with digital transformation.
Hi all, we are happy to present the first episode of "The Product Management Leaders Podcast"!Our aim with this podcast is to connect you with some of the top PM leaders and share their real-world strategies and tactics for building world-class products with you.In today's episode, Grant Duncan speaks with Greg Montalvo, the Director of Product Management at Inmar, a 5,000+ person company. Greg has previously worked at Deutsche Bank, Veritas Software, and others. He's been a software engineer in the past, and even has an MBA from Duke's Fuqua school of business. So he has a lot of great insights to share with you.Hope you enjoy! Subscribe to be notified of our upcoming episodes!This podcast is sponsored by Voximplant, the leading serverless communications platform and no-code drag and drop contact center solution.Voximplant enables product leaders and developers to integrate communications into their products such as embedding voice, video, SMS, in-app chat, and natural language processing and it enables customer service teams to run their whole operation from one place. Join over 30,000 businesses trusting Voximplant such as Burger King, 8x8, and Hyundai.https://voximplant.com/If you have any questions, tweet Grant at twitter.com/grantmduncan
I had the chance to chat with my good friend and tech genius Dennis Schultz who shares his personal money story as we also dive into how tech also leads to wealth creation for black and brown communities. Dennis Schultz is the Executive Director of the Blacks In Technology Foundation, an organization that boasts the largest network for Black technology professionals. Dennis has over 25 years of experience in tech serving in a variety of roles including, enterprise sales, business development, customer success, and consulting. Dennis' experience includes time at tech's most respected brands, Dropbox, Gartner, Samsung, Dell, Lenovo, Rackspace Technology, VERITAS Software, and APC to name a few. Currently, Dennis is a Customer Success Manager at HPE. Additionally, Dennis is the founder of SaaS startup PaparazzMe, a mobile service for on-demand photography launching in 2021. Learn More : https://www.blacksintechnology.net/ and https://foundation.blacksintechnology.net/
Do you think you're funny? As funny as Jerry Lewis? If so, you're the perfect presenter. Finding your style in how you present will unlock doors to success in business. Discover whether you like presenting yourself to the world via email, speeches, question and answer sessions- or should we just stick to comedian-style? In this episode, Chris Tabish explains Comediology concepts, the most incredible model for discovering your style. If you're not a presenter, quit struggling to get out on that stage and get started on writing those emails. And if you are, shut off those emails and get performing! My Guest: Chris Tabish Chris Tabish is a Silicon Valley business professional, active stand-up comedian and author of the book "Comediology", how to be more effective and fulfilled in business with principles learned from stand-up comedy. Chris Tabish is the co-founder of Venture West Consulting in Silicon Valley whose mission is to help organizations create meaningful strategies and bring them to reality. Venture West has helped many Fortune 500 companies like Kaiser Permanente, Cisco Systems, Veritas Software, Brown and Toland, Petco and Juniper Networks, to name a few. Chris found his way into the stand-up comedy community in 2010 out of desperation to bring more joy into his career and life. After taking his own happiness into consideration, he left his executive position and began consulting using his unique Comediology concepts with the corporate world. He noticed the difference in his clients and wrote his book to share his techniques with other corporate citizens who felt ineffective or unfulfilled in their career. Chris continues to perform stand-up in the San Francisco Bay area where he lives with his wife and three kids. Episode Highlights: "Comedy is when applying successful comedy techniques traditionally used to abuse, entertain or make an audience laugh, to your regular occupation profession or trade, to enhance your daily effectiveness, fulfilment and joy." "It was a journey into the unknown. I was like a storm trooper." "I had to find something that brought me joy" "I used to think comedy was about bringing a joke to the audience. Over time (embarrassingly a lot of time) I realised it's not about that." "If you are really imputing your why into what you are doing, you will find joy in that moment. It's amazing. It's transformational." "Comedy forces you to look inside yourself." Quote: Be yourself, because everyone else is taken. Resources & Links: Find Chris: https://comediology.com/ (comediology.com) Find Chris on social: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-tabish-a081242/ (LinkedIn) Work with Estie: http://www.strandconsulting.net/ (www.strandconsulting.net) Join us on the Show: http://www.estierand.com/breakthrough (www.estierand.com/breakthrough) For Part 2 of this episode go to estierand.com/98 Did you enjoy this episode? Then https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/estie-rand/id1358797306?mt=2&ls=1 (subscribe to my podcast on iTunes), so you can get automatic updates whenever another episode goes live (and you will be helping me get to #1 on iTunes, making us all cooler in the process!)
Do you think you're funny? As funny as Jerry Lewis? If so, you're the perfect presenter. Finding your style in how you present will unlock doors to success in business. Discover whether you like presenting yourself to the world via email, speeches, question and answer sessions- or should we just stick to comedian-style? In this episode, Chris Tabish explains Comediology concepts, the most incredible model for discovering your style. If you're not a presenter, quit struggling to get out on that stage and get started on writing those emails. And if you are, shut off those emails and get performing! My Guest: Chris Tabish Chris Tabish is a Silicon Valley business professional, active stand-up comedian and author of the book "Comediology", how to be more effective and fulfilled in business with principles learned from stand-up comedy. Chris Tabish is the co-founder of Venture West Consulting in Silicon Valley whose mission is to help organizations create meaningful strategies and bring them to reality. Venture West has helped many Fortune 500 companies like Kaiser Permanente, Cisco Systems, Veritas Software, Brown and Toland, Petco and Juniper Networks, to name a few. Chris found his way into the stand-up comedy community in 2010 out of desperation to bring more joy into his career and life. After taking his own happiness into consideration, he left his executive position and began consulting using his unique Comediology concepts with the corporate world. He noticed the difference in his clients and wrote his book to share his techniques with other corporate citizens who felt ineffective or unfulfilled in their career. Chris continues to perform stand-up in the San Francisco Bay area where he lives with his wife and three kids. Quote: Be yourself, because everyone else is taken. Resources & Links: Find Chris: https://comediology.com/ (comediology.com) Find Chris on social: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-tabish-a081242/ (LinkedIn) Work with Estie: http://www.strandconsulting.net/ (www.strandconsulting.net) Join us on the Show: http://www.estierand.com/breakthrough (www.estierand.com/breakthrough) For Part 2 of this episode go to estierand.com/98-2 Did you enjoy this episode? Then https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/estie-rand/id1358797306?mt=2&ls=1 (subscribe to my podcast on iTunes), so you can get automatic updates whenever another episode goes live (and you will be helping me get to #1 on iTunes, making us all cooler in the process!)
In this conversation between Sivaguru from PM Power Consulting & Sharad Sharma, co-founder of iSpirit Foundation, Sharad shares several off the beaten track perspectives on His multi-threaded career navigated via multiple s-curves How to create innovative software products, a dual immersion necessity If you read it in the news, dont follow it! Solving problems through different layers of work happening in different realms - the apple and android battery case. Understanding your personality archetype and going from good to great. Developing a contrarian mindset Sharad's has three decades of experience in the Internet, Enterprise Software, and Digital Infrastructure markets and is a prominent voice in India's technology ecosystem. Sharad is a passionate evangelist of the software product ecosystem in India. He co-founded iSPIRT Foundation, a non-profit technology think tank devoted to making India a product nation. Earlier, he Chaired NASSCOM Product Forum in its formative years and was a member of the NASSCOM Executive Council from 2009-13. Sharad co-founded Teltier Technologies Inc., and is an active technology angel investor with over two dozen investments. He was also instrumental in the success of India's first IP focussed fund, India Innovation Fund. Sharad has held several senior R&D executive positions with leading technology companies, including Yahoo, VERITAS Software, Symantec, Lucent Technologies, and AT&T. Zinnov gave him the R&D Visionary Award in 2008 for his work on creating a strong MNC R&D footprint in India. Sharad is a member of SEBI's Financial and Regulatory Technology Committee. He has also served on RBI's UK Sinha MSME Committee and National Digital Payments Committee. Sharad got interested in kernel software development while doing his Electrical Engineering at Delhi College of Engineering. He started India's first Student Minicomputer Club in 1984 as served as the Chairperson of the IEEE Student Chapter.
On this episode of On the Metal, we interview Jeff Rothschild. Jeff has had a fascinating journey solving all sorts of fun problems at various levels of the stack. He is most widely known as being a co-founder of Veritas Software and the first VP of Engineering at Facebook, but his story does not start there. Join us as we hear Jeff’s stories from his impressive technical endeavors including disassembling MS-DOS, editing machine code in an octal editor, trolling coworkers in error messages, the origin story of ftruncate, and more.
Jeff Rothschild was one of the earliest engineers to join Facebook. In the 1990s, Jeff had co-founded Veritas Software and helped it to its IPO in 2004. After Veritas, Jeff worked on several other of his own companies. He was working with Accel Partners on investments when he started to learn about Facebook. Accel was The post Facebook Entrepreneurship with Jeff Rothschild appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
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Nick Mehta is CEO of Gainsight, the Customer Success Company. He’s a big believer in the Golden Rule and tries to apply it as much as he can to bring more compassion to his interactions with others. Under Nick's leadership, Gainsight was named the second fastest growing private software company in 2015 by Inc. Magazine. On top of that, Forbes ranked Gainsight as the Best Enterprise Software Company to Work For based on Glassdoor ratings. As Nick likes to say (a little too fast and a little too often), that's awesome. Previously, Nick worked as an Entrepreneur in Residence with Accel Partners developing opportunities in the enterprise applications and infrastructure markets. He was also CEO of LiveOffice, where he led the company’s profitable growth to $25 million in revenue and through its successful sale to Symantec in 2012 for $115 million. LiveOffice was recognized as a Visionary by Gartner, as an Inc. 5000 company, and as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. Before joining LiveOffice, Nick was a Vice President at VERITAS Software (acquired by Symantec). Don't get him started on theoretical physics or Steelers football—he'll talk your ear off!
with Mark Leslie (@mleslie45) and Peter Levine What does it actually take to win at enterprise sales? In this episode, Mark Leslie, former CEO and chairman and founding team member of Veritas Software, and a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a16z general partner Peter Levine -- who worked together at Veritas -- share stories from the field all about sales and entrepreneurship in the enterprise. The wide-ranging conversation covers everything from what makes a good salesperson; to how to actually close that deal; to how to build a company that best incentivizes your sales reps. This episode is based on a conversation that originally took place at an event held at Andreessen Horowitz for veterans participating in the BreakLine education and hiring program for shifting veterans into careers in the tech industry.
Welcome to Episode 50 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast of your most-trusted source for startup and tech jobs, news, and insights! For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Ben Nye, CEO at Turbonomic, which is an anchor company in the Boston tech scene that has raised over $100M in funding. Ben has been successful in the tech industry from both sides of the equation. As an executive, he helped take Precise Software public, which was later acquired by VERITAS Software. As an investor at Bain Capital Ventures, he's been recognized multiple times by Forbes' Midas List as one of the top VC investors in the US. His investments have included many companies that you've likely heard of like LinkedIn, Rapid7, DocuSign, Solarwinds, Stackdriver, and many others. In this episode of our podcast, we cover: -Ben's background, from the early days when he started out as a salmon fishing guide to how he got into the tech industry. -His experience as one of the top VC's in the country building out the Infrastructure Software Practice at Bain Capital. -All the details in terms of the evolution of Turbonomic and their platform that delivers workload automation for hybrid cloud environments. -His thoughts on sales and figuring out which model is right for your company. -Why references are the most important part of the interview process. -Plus, a lot more! Lastly, if you like the show, please remember to subscribe to and review us on iTunes, or your podcast player of choice!
The latest updates to accelerate modern teamwork with Microsoft 365, starting with the work to empower different kinds of workers across different industries. Presented by Microsoft Teams General Manager, Lori Wright, and joined by Jeremy Chapman, they cover the completion of Skype for Business capabilities within Microsoft Teams to deliver a complete meeting and calling solution. Deeper teamwork experiences across Microsoft 365 to transform collaboration. And new controls for security, compliance, team management and more for IT. Get teams today as part of your Office 365 subscription, or use the free version by visiting: www.office.com/teams Subject Matter Expert: Lori Wright is the General Manager of Microsoft Teams and Skype Product Marketing. She joined Microsoft in 2017 from BlueJeans Network, where she was Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Business Alliances. Prior to BlueJeans, Lori served as Chief Marketing Officer of TIBCO, (NASDAQ: TIBX), a leading global infrastructure and analytics company sold to Vista Equity Partners for $4.3B. Before joining TIBCO, she served as vice president at Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) overseeing the $2B worldwide e-commerce sales of Norton software. Lori held executive positions within Symantec's Cloud and Enterprise divisions over her 11-year tenure, beginning at VERITAS Software in 2001, prior to the $13B acquisition of VERITAS by Symantec—the largest software acquisition in history at the time. Lori started career at. Walt Disney World Co., in marketing and sales and holds a B.A. in Business from the University of Central Florida.
Mark Leslie was the founding Chairman and CEO of Veritas Software. During his tenure as CEO, the company went from 12 employees to 5,500 employees deployed globally, and from a revenue base of $95,000 per year to $1,500,000,000 per year. In 2000, Veritas was the 10th largest independent software company by revenue, third largest by market capitalization, and achieved the distinction of becoming a Fortune 1000 company. From 1980 until 1990 he served as president and chief executive officer of two Silicon Valley high-tech start-up companies. His prior experience included sales management, sales executive, systems engineer, and OS programmer. Mark Leslie is a successful retired entrepreneur and continues to be active in the Silicon Valley community. Attend my one-day conference January 27th in Pittsburgh. Learn more here. Connect with Mark LinkedIn Twitter Resources The Sales Learning Curve by Mark Leslie & Charles A. Holloway Subscribe
When Facebook’s founding engineer and Vanderbilt alumnus, Jeff Rothschild, first visited the fledgling company in 2005 at the behest of a venture capital firm, he was wary of the social media space in general and didn’t expect to stay more than two weeks. But then “I got to meet Mark (Zuckerberg) and Dustin Moskovitz and the other early members of the team and really fell in love with the vision they had for Facebook,” Rothschild told Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos in an interview for his latest podcast, The Zeppos Report. Rothschild, who earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1977 and a master’s in computer science in 1979, told Zeppos that the Facebook of today closely resembles the original vision of connecting families and friends that the team laid out when it first started. “All of the people who joined Facebook in the early days cared about the mission of the company,” said Rothschild, who served as vice president of Infrastructure Software at Facebook from 2005 until 2015. “Very few of them thought, ‘I’m joining a hot startup.’” In addition to sharing his perspective on what made Facebook successful where other competitors failed, Rothschild talks to Zeppos about the benefits of “collateral knowledge,” as well as data analytics and automation coming together to usher in a new era of augmented intelligence. Before Facebook, Rothschild co-founded Veritas Software. He continues to serve as a consulting partner at the venture capital firm Accel Partners. As of July 1, 2017, he will begin a term as vice chairman of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust. In December 2016, Rothschild and his wife, Marieke, made a $20 million gift through a donor-advised fund to support the development of Vanderbilt’s residential colleges program, College Halls. Rothschild joined Zeppos on campus for the interview, which took place on April 21, 2017. The podcast is available on SoundCloud, Stitcher, Google Play, iTunes, YouTube and The Zeppos Report website. For a transcript of this podcast, please go to this URL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/vu-wp0/wp-content/uploads/sites/79/2017/10/24185247/The_Zeppos_Report_6_with_Jeff_Rothschild.docx The podcast is available on SoundCloud, Stitcher, Google Play, iTunes, YouTube and The Zeppos Report website. Media Inquiries: Melanie Moran, (615) 322-NEWS melanie.moran@vanderbilt.edu
Nutanix Community Podcast Episode 39 with Angelo Luciani. This week we listen to an inspiring talk from Mark Leslie on "The Arc of Life" - How companies go on to disrupt themselves. Mark Leslie is the founder and former CEO of Veritas Software, Lecturer in Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Managing General Partner at Leslie Ventures.
Far-reaching international tax legislation enacted -- President Obama signs landmark financial reform legislation -- House Ways and Means Committee holds hearing on business restructuring and transfer pricing issues -- IRS acquiesces in result only in Xilinx v. Commissioner -- IRS concedes remaining cost-sharing issue in Veritas Software case -- IRS issues welcome Industry Director Directive on GRAs -- IRS realigning, renaming LMSB division to Large Business and International division --US District Court decision highlights dispute resolution alternatives regarding foreign-initiated adjustments -- US Senate approves new US-Malta treaty, US-New Zealand tax protocol