Opsware
3 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Jason Rosenthal · said 32 times in 16 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2025 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2023 2 mentions in 1 episode
2019 16 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
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- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 3 mentions in 1 episode
2017 5 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Opsware, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019
Rosenthal: Opsware early installs required physical server clones from HQ
“For the first over year of being in the software business after we've made the pivot the only way that you could install the software at a customer site was you had to bring along a server with you from our headquarters that was already running the software.”
Jan 2, 2019
Jun 14, 2023
Horowitz withheld a department's equity to force an executive to write reviews
“So he didn't write the review, and I just, I withhold, held all the raises, equity, ups, everything for his organization. I was like, you can't, nobody can get any, everybody else in the company got their equity and their money.”