From: <1 To: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Subject: Fw: [New post] Tanium Magic Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 23:15:41 +0000 Importance: Normal What I mentioned... this is the blog post on http://www.a16z.com Sent from Surface From: Learning by Shipping Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2014 3:36 PM To: Steven Sinofsky New post on Learning by Shipping Tanium Magic by Steven Sinofsky s Lightening doesn't often strike twice, but in the case of the father and son team of David and Orion Hindawi, founders of Tanium Inc. that's exactly what has happened. Tanium is a prime example of a modern enterprise software company —solving the new generation of today's problems using skills and experience gained from being successful founders in the previous generation. Forming the company David Hindawi, a PhD in Operations Research from UC Berkeley is an entrepreneur who led the creation of several successful companies through the earliest days of the PC era. His early efforts focused on getting PCs connected to the "net" and keeping them running smoothly. In 1997, David teamed up with his son Orion, then an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, to form BigFix. BigFix solved the problem of communicating with all the end-points (PCs, servers, virtual machines, and more) on enterprise networks to gather configuration data and deploy product updates. BigFix was a remarkable product for the time routinely scaling to 100,000 end-points. In 2010, IBM acquired BigFix and integrated it into the Tivoli Software portfolio marking a successful exit. Some might have been content to rest on their collective laurels having invented the technology, built a company, and scaled a business to the most elite of enterprise success stories. Instead, David, Orion and the key architects of BigFix had an even bigger idea. Forming Tanium came about as the team reflected on these product shortcomings. "We recognized that enterprises needed endpoint control that was much faster than they could