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The path of an entrepreneur never did run smooth… Jos White Seedcamp - September, 2010
Career History - Started in a barn to buy and sell second hand IBM kit - Became Europe’s largest Cisco distributor 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2005 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2009 RBR Networks Star Internet MessageLabs Notion ,[object Object],[object Object],- The first company in the world to deliver anti-virus/anti-spam in the cloud - Sold to Symantec in 2008 for $700M ,[object Object],[object Object]
MessageLabs business model ARPU ($) Users (million) 2008 revenues $150M
MyDoom – the fastest spreading virus ever…
Some lessons learnt along the way … ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
“ It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt
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Jos white at seedcamp week 2010

  • 1. The path of an entrepreneur never did run smooth… Jos White Seedcamp - September, 2010
  • 2.
  • 3. MessageLabs business model ARPU ($) Users (million) 2008 revenues $150M
  • 4. MyDoom – the fastest spreading virus ever…
  • 5.
  • 6. “ It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt