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Felipe Corto

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
181 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

On the SME, it will be around $50,000 a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

And on the small businesses, it will be more like $5,000 a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

So we launched the company in 1999, which is quite a long time ago with, again, that vision that we could really use the new technology to change essentially like Salesforce.com did.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

It took us a much longer time because the security people were very reluctant to the model because for them it was all about keeping the data inside so they didn't like the cloud.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

But now today, of course, everybody realizes that you have to essentially embark into this cloud architecture.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

So we are now finally extremely well positioned.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

We have about 870 people now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

And with a big chunk, we made a big investment in engineering and ops in India.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

We have now about 350 people in Pune in India.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

Yes, it is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

Also, we're based in Europe, in all the major countries, in Brazil, in Hong Kong, in Asia, in all the major markets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

So we're totally global.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

Our main office is in the Silicon Valley.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

So we're just next to the San Francisco airport.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

We were very reasonable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

In fact, we raised, all total, we raised about $65 million altogether.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

And as you can see today, we have a market cap of a bit more than $2 billion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

We were cash flow positive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

We're a public company.