Kentik

<p>Alan Cohen, partner at venture capital firm DCVC, sits down with Avi to talk about his experience working in networking and security. During the conversation the two discuss Alan's history starting out as an accidental tourist in tech, following the internet's growth to Cisco, then networking and security startups in the Valley. They also cover the advent of virtualization and multi-cloud, and strategies Alan has learned through his venture capital days to reach and grow entrepreneurs' businesses. </p>

After executive roles in big tech, became product leader and frontman for 4 iconic, industry-transforming start-ups (Tahoe, Airespace, Nicira, Illumio), 2 which were category-defining exits, one is flying, and one was a colossal fireball. All of them upset the incumbents on the way to creating over $5B in investor value and annually generating over $6B in revenue. Now turned Deep-Tech investor. Working with entrepreneurs to build breakthrough companies in parts of the economy not touched by the tech revolution. A practitioner of product-led growth. 

Alan Cohen

Partner at DCVC

Alan Cohen, partner at venture capital firm DCVC, sits down with Avi to talk about his experience working in networking and security, the advent of virtualization and multi-cloud, and strategies he has learned throughout his venture capital days to reach and grow entrepreneurs' businesses.


Navigating venture capital and networking with Alan Cohen

Alan Cohen, partner at venture capital firm DCVC, sits down with Avi to talk about his experience working in networking and security. During the conversation the two discuss Alan's history working for Nicira, Cisco, Illumio, and VMware. They also cover the advent of virtualization and multi-cloud, and strategies he has learned throughout his venture capital days to reach and grow entrepreneurs' businesses.


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DCVC

Introduction and overview

Alan's background and coming to networking as an accidental tourist

Nicira and realizing the need for software control layers

Alan's experience at Cisco

Alan talks about speaking at Vortex

Mainstream networking, Nicira, and virtualization 

The advent of virtualization and VMware

VMware, multi-cloud, and the shift from all-in-one packages to specialized SaaS

eBPF and designing solutions for "purple" customers

Data visualization and learning how to ask the right questions

What drew Alan to venture capital?

The roles of VC to entrepreneurs and start up founders

Alan's advice on entering networking and his cybersecurity triangle

What's your advice to younger Alan?