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Mohit Aron, Cohesity & Nutanix Founder on AI Infra & Hyper-Scale Data

from Venture with Grace · host Grace Gong

Mohit Aron is the founder of Cohesity and Nutanix and now he’s building Stealth AI startup. He is famous for being the founder of both. Mohit Aron built Cohesity into a multi-billion-dollar data protection unicorn backed by Sequoia, Nvidia, and others after co-founding and scaling Nutanix as CTO to public market leadership with hyper-converged infrastructure that redefined enterprise storage. A Rice University engineering alum and ex-Google File System architect, he pioneered secondary storage innovations tackling "dark data" analytics, DevOps, and resiliency at massive scale, now focusing his serial founder expertise on next-gen AI infrastructure post-Cohesity's 2024 transition where he stepped to founder emeritusTopics:Scaling from CTO (Nutanix) to CEO (Cohesity) to Serial Founder (Stealth)Sales tactics for infrastructure startups.Infrastructure Lessons You Only Learn at $1B+ Scale#AIWorkloads #DataProtection #TechInnovation #HyperScaleData #Insurtech #DataInnovation #Founders

Mohit Aron is the founder of Cohesity and Nutanix and now he’s building Stealth AI startup. He is famous for being the founder of both. Mohit Aron built Cohesity into a multi-billion-dollar data protection unicorn backed by Sequoia, Nvidia, and others after co-founding and scaling Nutanix as CTO to public market leadership with hyper-converged infrastructure that redefined enterprise storage. A Rice University engineering alum and ex-Google File System architect, he pioneered secondary storage innovations tackling "dark data" analytics, DevOps, and resiliency at massive scale, now focusing his serial founder expertise on next-gen AI infrastructure post-Cohesity's 2024 transition where he stepped to founder emeritusTopics:Scaling from CTO (Nutanix) to CEO (Cohesity) to Serial Founder (Stealth)Sales tactics for infrastructure startups.Infrastructure Lessons You Only Learn at $1B+ Scale#AIWorkloads #DataProtection #TechInnovation #HyperScaleData #Insurtech #DataInnovation #Founders

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