How did Bipul Sinha, a man with neither entrepreneurial nor operation executive-level tech business experience, become the CEO of startup #Rubrik? In his teens Sinha learnt English in India, studied, gained an electrical engineering degree then emigrated to the USA as a software engineer. Later he left #Oracle and gained an MBA, which led to venture capital investing. In 2014, when he was in his late 30s, he stepped sideways from being an investment partner at venture capital company Lightspeed to co-found Rubrik. As three-year-old VC-backed startups go, Rubrik is doing a damn fine job so far, with a billion dollar-plus valuation and a $100 million run rate. It's not made any obvious missteps that have sucked down other storage-related startups, such as #Exanet, #Violin Memory, sTEC, and many more. You would think you need CEO-level experience to avoid making the mistakes that doomed these companies, yet Sinha has none of that. Is there something about being a VC which means that, when you do become a CEO of a VC-backed startup, you have a much firmer grasp on what the company needs to do and not do? Such as achieve a great exit; either by IPO or acquisition, or, as in Rubrik's case, to become an enduring institution that outlasts its founders.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/22/rubrik_ceo_profile/
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