Mohit Aran

Founder & CEO, SciFin · 1 appearance on the record.

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Widely dubbed the father of hyperconvergence, Aron worked on the Google File System before co-founding Nutanix as CTO and later founding data management unicorn Cohesity. He subsequently launched SciFin, an enterprise AI platform designed to unify fragmented sales context, which emerged from stealth with $44 million in seed funding.

11statements → 5claims → 3claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 3.73/5average certainty → 1.36/5average debate potential →

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5 assertions · 6 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Mohit argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Mohit Aron claims he invented the concept of hyper-convergence at Nutanix

“I left Aster in 2009, and I actually founded the infrastructure company Nutanix in 2009, September 2009, and I was there with Nutanix for a little more than three years, and I was the brains behind the concept of hyperconvergence, which has kind of taken over …”

Mohit Aran Mar 9, 2016 ▶ 8:44 Inventor of Hyper-Convergence Sitting On $150m+ Valuation and $77m Raised with Mohit Aron of Cohesity EP 199

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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How they sound: not measured why? →

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What they said11 Episodes1

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Assertion Supported

Mohit Aron claims he invented the concept of hyper-convergence at Nutanix

Mohit Aran Mar 9, 2016 ▶ 8:44 Inventor of Hyper-Convergence Sitting On $150m+ Valuation and $77m Raised with Mohit Aron of Cohesity EP 199

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Sequoia gave Cohesity its highest enterprise Series A valuation in four years

“In Sequoia's own words, they have not given that high valuation to any enterprise company in the last four years before.”

Mohit Aran Mar 9, 2016 ▶ 14:28 Inventor of Hyper-Convergence Sitting On $150m+ Valuation and $77m Raised with Mohit Aron of Cohesity EP 199

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Aron: CPU and disk speeds outpaced networking growth 100-to-1

“The network speeds in the last 15 years have only grown by a factor of 10. Whereas the disk speeds and the CPU speeds have grown phenomenally. Maybe a hundred acts, or sometimes even a thousand acts.”

Mohit Aran Mar 9, 2016 ▶ 10:03 Inventor of Hyper-Convergence Sitting On $150m+ Valuation and $77m Raised with Mohit Aron of Cohesity EP 199

Disclosure

Mohit Aron made over $500k annually before leaving Google in 2007

“My salary, you know, combined all the take home with all the bonus and stock options and stuff, it was well north of half a million.”

Mohit Aran Mar 9, 2016 ▶ 3:36 Inventor of Hyper-Convergence Sitting On $150m+ Valuation and $77m Raised with Mohit Aron of Cohesity EP 199

Disclosure

Mohit Aron abandoned over $2 million in unvested Google options

“I had, I left a lot of options on the table more than a couple of million worth.”

Mohit Aran Mar 9, 2016 ▶ 3:46 Inventor of Hyper-Convergence Sitting On $150m+ Valuation and $77m Raised with Mohit Aron of Cohesity EP 199

Assertion Partly supported

Teradata acquired Aster Data for approximately $325 million

“I think the sale was it was undisclosed, and I had left Astrid by then, but the sale was around three hundred twenty five million if we know the numbers correctly.”

Mohit Aran Mar 9, 2016 ▶ 7:37 Inventor of Hyper-Convergence Sitting On $150m+ Valuation and $77m Raised with Mohit Aron of Cohesity EP 199

Disclosure

Mohit Aron retained an 8.8% equity stake in Nutanix

“Well, the public number that they published out was 8.8%. you know, it's out there in storage review and a bunch of other articles. So that's what I own.”

Mohit Aran Mar 9, 2016 ▶ 11:37 Inventor of Hyper-Convergence Sitting On $150m+ Valuation and $77m Raised with Mohit Aron of Cohesity EP 199

Assertion Supported

Nutanix was generating $10 million per quarter when Aron departed

“Yeah, we were, I think we were doing approximately ten million a quarter by then.”

Mohit Aran Mar 9, 2016 ▶ 12:44 Inventor of Hyper-Convergence Sitting On $150m+ Valuation and $77m Raised with Mohit Aron of Cohesity EP 199

Disclosure

Cohesity raised a $15M Series A from Sequoia and Wing

“I got funded by Sequoia and another venture firm, which was new, called Wing Ventures, and together they put in fifteen million dollars to put money into my Series A.”

Mohit Aran Mar 9, 2016 ▶ 14:02 Inventor of Hyper-Convergence Sitting On $150m+ Valuation and $77m Raised with Mohit Aron of Cohesity EP 199

Disclosure

Cohesity raised a $55 million Series B in May 2015

“So series A was raised in November, 2013, and I raised my series B in May, 2015, which was last year. And that was, again, another record. You know, we raised fifty-five million dollars.”

Mohit Aran Mar 9, 2016 ▶ 14:58 Inventor of Hyper-Convergence Sitting On $150m+ Valuation and $77m Raised with Mohit Aron of Cohesity EP 199

Disclosure

Mohit Aron traded salary for a 1% equity stake at Aster Data

“I took a pathetically low salary. You know, it was around 120,000 because I was, I had made enough money, but the options were eventually close to a percent that I took.”

Mohit Aran Mar 9, 2016 ▶ 6:08 Inventor of Hyper-Convergence Sitting On $150m+ Valuation and $77m Raised with Mohit Aron of Cohesity EP 199

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Inventor of Hyper-Convergence Sitting On $150m+ Valuation and $77m Raised with Mohit Aron	Mar 9, 2016	13m

Mohit Aran

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