Artifact Details

Title

Churchill Club | Perspective on innovation and entrepreneurship

Catalog Number

102792387

Type

Moving image

Description

Speakers:
David Cheriton, Professor of CS/EE, Stanford University; serial entrepreneur; Google early investor
Ken Xie, Founder and CEO, Fortinet; serial entrepreneur
Moderator: Stewart Alsop, Partner, Alsop Louie Partners

David Cheriton and Ken Xie are two of the most successful serial entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. One born in Vancouver and the other in Beijing, both came to Silicon Valley and made their fortunes.

A computer science professor at Stanford University, David Cheriton co-founded three companies with Andy Bechtolsheim: Kealia (sold to Sun for $90M), Granite Systems (sold to Cisco for $200M+), and Arista Networks. In August 1998, Bechtolsheim and Cheriton wrote the first two checks to fund a new startup named Google.

Ken Xie came to Silicon Valley 22 years ago and started his first company, SIS, while studying at Stanford in 1993. He founded NetScreen in 1996, which later sold to Juniper Networks for $4 billion. He is presently the founder and CEO of his third company, Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), where he pioneered Unified Threat Management (UTM) in the Internet security space. Fortinet's market cap today is around $4 billion.

Here's your chance to hear and participate in a frank and candid conversation with these remarkable individuals, whose passion for innovation and entrepreneurship runs deep.

Date

2012-02-23

Participants

Alsop, Stewart, Moderator
Cheriton, David, Speaker
Xie, Ken, Speaker

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Palo Alto, CA

Duration

01:23:21

Format

MP4

Category

Talk

Collection Title

Churchill Club

Credit

Gift of the Churchill Club

Lot Number

X9335.2021