Interview with Steve Herrod – General Catalyst Partners

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Date: 16 February 2015
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Recently I had the great honor and pleasure to speak with Steve Herrod, managing director at General Catalyst partners. Before entering the VC world, Steve enjoyed an impressive 12-year long career at VMware where he held various technical leadership roles and left as CTO.

I had a very forthright talk with Steve, no marketing speak or any rehearsed answers. To reflect the open nature of our chat, I left the transcription largely un-edited.

Steve-HerrodI spoke to Steve about developments in the market and his investmentfocus at General Catalyst partners. Specifically we discussed the trend towards Mobile, Mobile payment and the increased scarcity in developer talent.
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Build your own private Amazon cloud at $1ct/GB with Cloudian

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Interview with founder and CEO Michael Tso
Date: 3 October 2014
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Interview with Michael Tso, CEO of Cloudian

This wednesday morning I had the pleasure to speak with Michael Tso at breakfast in an Amsterdam city-centre hotel.
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Born in mainland China, Michael was raised in Shanghai and Hongkong, finished high school in Melbourne and graduated at MIT in 1993. In his 20 years business experience he not only lead companies commercially, but also accumulated 32 patents.

He’s the CEO of Cloudian, a company I only recently became aware of.

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Interview with Sirish Raghuram, CEO of Platform9

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Date: 18 Augustus 2014
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I recently spoke with Alex Benik of Battery Ventures, who argued the IT market has come to expect the ease-of-use and agility of public cloud services like AWS (Amazon Web Services).

Read my article with Alex Benik, partner at Battery Ventures here

Alex stated that internal IT organisations are increasingly benchmarked against AWS by their internal customers in terms of ease-of-use and speed. For traditional enterprises, that do not have the scale and resources of Amazon, it is very hard to meet the AWS service levels.

As circumstances would have it, soon after I picked up these insights I spoke with Platform9. They offer internal IT organisations a way to build a private cloud that approaches the agility and ease-of-use of AWS.

I had the great pleasure to speak with Sirish Raghuram, the CEO of Platform9.
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