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Mark Weiner, Founder & CEO at Reduxio
Age: 50
Lives in: Amsterdam
Significant others: Married + 2
Company’s main offices:
We have a U.S. office in Silicon Valley and a development site in Israel.
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Mark and the executive team at Reduxio (click to enlarge).
Top row (from left to right) – John Williams (President), Jacob Cherian (VP Product Management and Product Strategy), Dror Granot (VP Engineering), Amnon Strasser (Founder and VP Research); Bottom row (from left to right) – Mark Weiner (Founder and CEO), Nir Peleg (Founder and CTO).
What does your company do and why is it unique?
We are developing a new storage platform that provides data management functionality, efficiency and performance that surpasses anything on the market today.
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What are you most proud of in your company?
The people. We have acquired probably the best talent in the storage industry today. Across our engineering, sales, support and executive teams, we have hired the brightest minds. In addition, our investors have proved to be true partners of ours from the get-go.
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Who inspires you/who do you admire and why?
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From a business sense – Dan Warmenhoven who was from my perspective one of the best CEOs in tech, ever. Dan as CEO of NetApp brought a company of 40 people selling less that $2M to over a Billion in revenues. Then after the dot com crash of 2001 he led the company again to a Billion in sales. All the while he drove a culture of hiring the best and making it a mission for both him and his leadership team to serve rather than be served.
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Clik here to view.On a personal note, my father Gerry Weiner. He grew up in a poor household in a lower class neighborhood of Montreal and fought his way out, graduating from McGill, building a business as a pharmacist hour by hour, year by year, and finally climbing his way though 6 municipal and federal elections to become Canada’s 55th Secretary of State.
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Which other companies do you admire?
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Clik here to view.Apple (obviously).
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Clik here to view.NetApp. In its prime, NetApp wasn’t just a company, it was a institution of learning. During my years there, I felt the same way as I did at university and learned a ton about how a great culture can have such a positive influence.
What do you do for fun?
Aikido, Tennis, Running (but it’s really not fun…)
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Mark doing some Aikido (he’s the one being thrown in the photo above)
iPhone or Android? iPhone, it just works.
Favorite Food: Vietnamese
Favorite TV Show: Battlestar Galactica
Favorite technological gadgets/apps right now:
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Clik here to view.Apple stuff: My Apple Watch, iPhone & iPad
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Clik here to view.Buienradar (you have to live Amsterdam to understand)
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Mark on Buienradar: “It’s an up to the minute sophisticated rain radar that you don’t leave home without. It always rains in the Netherlands so knowing where, how much and exact time is critical to living.”
Favorite go-to websites/blogs for news on your industry/technology:
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Clik here to view.WSJ
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Clik here to view.Storage Newsletter
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The best business advice you ever received:
Keep things simple: Great companies do two things – they make great products and they sell them.
What do you think would really surprise people to learn about you?
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Clik here to view.I ran for Canadian parliament in 1993 (and lost, luckily)
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Clik here to view.My first business, AirFish, was selling fresh fish (which meant working between 23:00 and 05:00 in a fish trading market – and touching the fish).
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Mark in his element, talking about Reduxio.
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