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NASA and Fortune 100 companies bought Druva's early backup software online

Jaspreet Singh · How to Scale from $1M to $1B & Protecting Enterprises Cloud Data Ft. Jaspreet Singh, Founder: Druva · Nov 7, 2022 · at 3:01

Jaspreet Singh, founder and CEO of Druva, describes how Druva validated customer demand for its remote backup software through inbound web downloads.

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“Like we got a call from NASA. We got a call from like Variety of large enterprise companies who are willing to really try the software and actually buy it on internet. And they were like Fortune hundred companies in many, many cases.”

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