When It Comes To Entrepreneurial, Palo Alto Networks Takes The Cake!
by Kevin (Kun Hao) Wang
I believe in order for a company to be considered entrepreneurial, it must exhibit innovative and high risk taking behaviour. Upon success, entrepreneurial companies generate millions of dollars in terms of entrepreneurial venture. Palo Alto Networks, being the leader in next-generation firewalls, enables unprecedented visibility and granular policy control of applications and content by users up to 10Gbps. Thus, in mind my mind is Palo Alto Networks is worthy of the title “entrepreneurial company.”
Founded by security visionary Nir Zuk, Palo Alto Networks offers the only firewall which is able to accurately identify dangerous applications and scan content to stop threats and prevent data leakage. Enterprises can for the first time maintain complete visibility and control, while significantly reducing total cost of ownership through device consolidation. Nonetheless, management team and board of directors have been key drivers of some of the most important network security companies and related technologies in the last 10 years. Worth mentioning, with the support of Globespan Capital Partners, Greylock Partners, and Sequoia Capital, Palo Alto Networks have raised $27 million for the funding of the next generation of firewalls. Launched only in 2006, the young company has already made more than $100 million in sales.
Sources: Dean Takahashi, Venture Beat
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