Shlomi Gian
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first heard Aug 2017
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Top Founders · 753: With His Tool, Mobile Browsing on Spotty Wifi Doesn't Suck · 16 Aug 2017
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Many of our customers are using traditional web CDNs like Akamai, Amazon, CloudFront, etc.
Once they start using PackageZoom, this bill almost goes away and they can replace it with a better service and all that.
Technically, they don't have to change, they don't have to terminate their relationship with the other CDN, but by placing us in front of them, they'll see a big reduction in the bill.
Oh, we raised capital.
So our main investors are Baseline and First Run Capital.
About six.
Yeah, Chetan Ahuja, who started the company in 2013, was at Google back then and he was very frustrated with the state of mobile data and mobile content delivery, so he tried to promote this idea at Google.
Of course, large company, things didn't move fast enough, so he left Google and started back at Zoom.
It's a very complicated technology.
He basically built a mobile networking stack
that works differently was designed just for mobile applications.
And when, you know, it took him a while to build it with a small team of engineer bootstrapped.
And then I was at Akamai back then after the acquisition of Cotendo, I was looking for cool cutting edge technologies to bring into Akamai.
And we were looking at everyone out there.
PackageZoom seemed to be the only technology that worked, but didn't have much success.
commercial traction.
And it was very interesting.
At the same time, the investors were looking for a CEO with more of a business background to come and lead a company, redefine the go-to market.
When I met Chetan and the team, I realized that the go-to market-
I met them just through Headhunter.
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