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Ken Xie
American
Businessman
Born:
1963
Applications
Cyber
Data
Experience
First
You
From the beginning, we have fostered a culture that embraces our entrepreneurial spirit and values innovation that puts our customers first.
Ken Xie
Culture
Innovation
Values
First
Beginning
Our
Embraces
Spirit
Entrepreneurial
Entrepreneurial Spirit
Puts
Customers
Fostered
Fortinet was founded in 2000 with the goal of making an impactful change in the network security space.
Ken Xie
Change
Space
Security
Network
Making
Goal
Founded
Actually, we got paid because the name Fortinet is so close to Fortnite, so I’m fine with their name being close to ours.
Ken Xie
Ours
Fine
Name
Because
Got
Close
Being
Fortnite
Paid
Actually
As for the endpoint market, vendors such as McAfee and Symantec hold tremendous brand equity due to their consumer products. This of course translates to brand awareness in the enterprise, too.
Ken Xie
Awareness
Too
Tremendous
Market
Enterprise
Consumer
Vendors
Course
Equity
Due
Brand
Hold
Products
We recognize that our employees are instrumental to our success, which is why we look for the best and the brightest in the industry. We consider ourselves not only a technology company, but also a learning company.
Ken Xie
Success
Best
Technology
Learning
Employees
Consider
Our
Recognize
Ourselves
Only
Look
Also
Instrumental
Industry
Which
Company
Why
Brightest
The reality is that there are simply not enough skilled humans available to properly plan, manage, integrate, and optimize security devices, strategies, and protocols.
Ken Xie
Reality
Enough
Security
Properly
Simply
Devices
Integrate
Optimize
Manage
Available
Plan
Skilled
Strategies
Humans
Ninety percent of cyber security companies begin in the detection stage. The issue is there are so many applications and alarming messages it is difficult for the user or the administrator to manage.
Ken Xie
Stage
Difficult
Ninety
Ninety Percent
Security
Administrator
Detection
Percent
Messages
Issue
Begin
Manage
Cyber
User
Companies
Many
Alarming
Applications
My parents, who were both professors at Tsinghua University, hoped that I would follow in their footsteps and become a professor.
Ken Xie
Parents
Become
Hoped
Would
Follow
Both
Footsteps
Were
Who
Professor
Professors
University
You no longer can say that inside a company everything is trusted because you could bring in a contaminated device. And it’s the same thing with data, because so much is no longer stored inside a company.
Ken Xie
You
Same Thing
Everything
Say
Inside
Data
Could
Longer
Contaminated
Device
Because
Trusted
Same
Stored
Much
Company
Thing
Bring
When you start off with your first company, you are learning as part of the process and you make mistakes. The important thing is to recover quickly and learn from the experience.
Ken Xie
You
Learning
Experience
First
Important
Mistakes
Recover
Part
Make
Learn
Important Thing
Off
Quickly
Process
Your
Company
Thing
Start
We talk a lot in Silicon Valley about product pipelines and sales pipelines, but what about talent pipelines? It is, after all, talent - people - who give us products to sell.
Ken Xie
People
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
About
Give
Talent
Talk
Sales
Lot
Sell
After
Us
Product
Products
Who