It's funny, sometimes I feel like I'm always working on startups and new things but so often working with some of the same people. So I've been working in a lot of ways with the same team on enterprise software for 12 years the same co-founders, same head of engineering a lot of the same salespeople and marketers. So infrastructure as a service software and in we started that in 2008 and had a really amazing run with that company, building that up and that led us to getting acquired by Citrix again second time and spending about three years at Citrix before we started Rancher in 2014. I got into marketing and demand gen and then picked up inside sales and before I knew it I was kind of craving to start working on the customer side and working more closely on building the companies.īy 2008, I met up with my co-founder Sheng Liang who was just getting ready to start a company called which was one of the first players in enterprise cloud computing software. That company did really well and ended up being bought by RSA Security then I went to another company that didn't like the first web application firewall that one ended up becoming part of Citrix, you know, went on to work on a host intrusion prevention systems and actually I started mostly in marketing as a journalism grad writer. Initially a lot of security companies I worked in. Shannon: But right away, I found a really interesting job working for a company called Securing Technologies in City that was focused on some of the earliest identity management and access control software for the web back in 99 and I just sort of took off from there getting to work on. It was kind of like it was very old school kind of open source accounting software if you can believe that back in the '90s. The first one I found was at this funny little accounting software company up here in Marin where I live. I wanted to be a reporter kind of growing up.Īnd when I came out, I sort of pinged around looking for interesting jobs, being a kid from the Bay Area all of the most interesting ones were in tech. Shannon: I've been in enterprise software now since the late '90s and my first job out of college I actually was a journalism school graduate. Tell us about how you got into enterprise software. Grant Miller: All right Shannon, thank you so much for joining.

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