Four years ago today, an amazing company was born at the hands of four incredible co-founders who still lead our rocket ship today. I am pleased and honored to have worked with this incredible team for 34 of its 48 months, beginning as a customer on the day of its emergence from stealth, March 24, 2015, and transitioning to a team member ten months later in January of 2016.
The nostalgia is manifest in so many ways…
- Going into production with 0.4 code (it was already revolutionary pre-1.0/GA)
- Working with Engineering directly because “Rubrik Support” was yet to exist (now it spans the globe and is a deal-maker for many customers)
- Remembering my original account team is now the VP of Sales for North America and Global Field CTO
Dipping my own toe in the cloud for the first time in 2015 thanks to Rubrik (archiving to AWS S3)- And now watching the past two years fly by as the company has grown from less than 100 to now more than 800…
- Oh, and let’s not forget some of the most amazing customers & their IT/cloud/automation teams!
Looking forward, the vision and plans for 2018 alone make me want to re-join the customer side just so I can deploy and use the capabilities we already and soon will have. Seeing the data stream in, replicate out, and instantly mount never gets old.
Happy birthday, Rubrik. Here’s to a cloud-bursting year ahead!
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