March 19, 2009

The March 19 membership meeting featured an interview with Sean Heiney of Barracuda Networks.  Where the careers of many IT innovators and entrepreneurs are typically marked by many highs and lows, Sean's impressive resume contains one high after the other.  Having started his first endeavor while still in high school (a community ISP which he eventually sold to Earthlink), to a software start-up that ended up becoming a multi-million dollar product sold to AOL, to founding, building up and selling off Periscan, to eventually joining  Barracuda

Networks where he has helped the company grow from 1 product with 50 staff to 12 products and 500+ staff-Sean has certainly seen and done it all!  In his own words—and with some help from Liquid Web Marketing Director Travis Stoliker (who helped conduct the interview,) Sean described his experiences and provided insight into what it takes to build good technology products for better acquisition targets.