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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 …”
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.”
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 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 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.”
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 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.”
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.”
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.”