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Wow... very thorough and good job of calling out those areas that you're not diving into.
Talks about employee stock options, share valuation and dilution
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Stephen Herrod
Partner at Juxtapose
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Stephen Herrod
Partner at Juxtapose
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Stephen Herrod is a Partner at Juxtapose and was part of the founding team at Lanai. He has held leadership roles at VMware, Inc., including CTO & Sr. VP of R&D, and has expertise in cloud computing, distributed systems, and virtualization.
His career highlights include being a Managing Director at General Catalyst and serving on the boards of companies like SECURITI.ai and Illumio.
Work Experience
Founding Team
2023 - Current
Partner
2023
Juxtapose partners with entrepreneurs building category-defining technology companies.
Board Member
2021
Tufts University's entrepreneurship center. We help students become entrepreneurial leaders.
Board Member
2019
Board Member
2013
Illumio is a provider of a SaaS platform offering automated enforcement against cyberattacks.
Raised $557,500,000.00 from Thoma Bravo, Owl Rock Capital, BAM Elevate, Hamilton Lane and Franklin Templeton.
Managing Director
2013 - 2023
Board Member Roles: ● Corelight: Aug 2018 - Jan 2023 ● Menlo Security: May 2014 - Jan 2023 ● Prosimo: Jan 2020 - Jan 2023 ● Armorblox: Jul 2018 - Jan 2023 ● Arrcus: Aug 2017 - Jan 2023 ● Espressive: Oct 2016 - Jan 2023 ● Contrast Security: May 2016 - Dec 2022 ● Gitpod: Feb 2021 - Sep 2022 ● Anomali: Nov 2014 - Sep 2022 ● Curai: Feb 2018 - Oct 2022 ● Impira: Aug 2017 - Nov 2022 - SOLD ● Preempt: Jan 2016 - Sep 2020 - SOLD ● RiskRecon: Sep 2015 - Dec 2019 - SOLD ● SignalFx: May 2018 - August 2019 - SOLD ● Zugata: Oct 2016 - Jan 2019 - SOLD ● Catalina Labs: Jan 2016 - Jan 2019 - SOLD ● Datto: Jun 2013 - Dec 2017 - SOLD Co-Host: Equivalent to Magic Podcast 2020 - 2021
General Catalyst partners with ambitious founders to drive resilience and applied AI from seed to growth.
CTO & Sr. VP of R&D
2008 - 2013
Member of executive staff responsible for creation and evangelization of VMware's technical strategy. Active participation in 15 acquisitions and company spokesperson with press, partners, analysts, and customers. ● Manage innovation programs, communications, industry standards, and IP strategy. ● General manager for 40-person internal mobile phone start-up ● Named 2009 CTO of the Year by Infoworld ● Named 2009 "Fortune Player of Tech” ● Industry presenter at numerous industry and company events - Keynote at six 10,000+ person events: http://vmworld.com - Keynotes at CloudSlam, Interop, and other international industry events - Author of thought pieces for Barron's, Economist, VirtualStrategy, ... - Several videos on: http://www.youtube.com/user/vmwaretv
VP of R&D
2005 - 2008
Ran 2,000 person R&D department for several months during leadership transitions ● Created and ran partner engineering group, developing large ecosystem across HW and SW domains ● Drove Virtual Infrastructure 3.x, VMware's $1B datacenter offering ● Participation in company’s acquisition by EMC and subsequent IPO on NYSE
Sr. Director of R&D
2002 - 2005
Took over ESX Server, storage, performance, and networking teams (~200 people) ● Drove ESX Server 2.x, company's first enterprise infrastructure offering
Director of R&D
2001 - 2002
Managed virtual machine monitor team
VMware Cloud allows users to run, manage, connect and secure an entire portfolio on any cloud to any device.
Sr. Director of Software Engineering
1998 - 2001
Responsible for development, test, and certification of "Code Morphing Software" ● IPO'd in 2000 and had largest first day growth until Google's IPO ● Crusoe was named one of IEEE Spectrum's microchips that shook the world Prior Roles at SGI/MIPs, Convex Computer, EDS, and Northern Telecom/BNR. Outside of Work ● Board member of Peninsula School in Menlo Park - Finance and Development committees ● Active in local and federal education initiatives, particularly around progressive education and STEM ● EMC Technical Advisory Board ● Fortune magazine's Brainstorm TECH panel ● Co-owner of Cafe Venetia in Palo Alto ● Father of 3 and active athletics coach
Engineer
1997 - 1998
MIPs Architecture