Friday's Last Word: RackWare CEO Sash Sunkara
RackWare CEO Sash Sunkara sat down with Talkin' Cloud to help us understand who she is outside of the office. Here are the details.
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To find out who Sunkara is outside of the office, click through this slideshow.
SUNKARA: Train.
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: Who’s still waiting to meet Virginia?
SUNKARA: Sidecar.
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: Cognac, orange liqueur and lemon juice.
SUNKARA: 2013 Toyota Prius tablet.
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: Someone gets to drive in the HOV lane.
SUNKARA: “Orange Is the New Black.” The show has amazing stories especially the back stories on each inmate. It definitely gave me a different perspective on prison and prisoners. I tend to get so hooked that I watch multiple episode at a single sitting since Netflix drops the entire season at once.
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: But those teeth though.
SUNKARA: OpenTable.
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: A restaurant not found on OpenTable is not worth your time.
SUNKARA: “Flash Boys” by Michael Lewis.
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: Is the stock market rigged? Read this book to find out.
SUNKARA: “Argo.”
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1980. Sound good?
SUNKARA: “Argo.”
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1980. Sound good?
Friday's Last Word: RackWare CEO Sash Sunkara — Who is she?
RackWare CEO Sash Sunkara co-founded the Santa Clara, California-based managed computing software company back in 2009. In addition to being the company's current CEO, she's also a member of its board of directors.
Before founding RackWare, Sunkara was vice president of marketing for QLogic’s Network Solutions Division with responsibility for the switch product lines. She also co-founded 3Leaf Systems, a venture-backed server virtualization company where her role as chief business officer spanned marketing, business development, support, and operations. Prior to that, Sunkara served as vice president of program management at Brocade Communications.
What does she have planned for the rest of the 2014?
What's Sunkara's strategy for the year of the year? "Scale, scale, scale," she said. "We are scaling sales and marketing, as well as building out an additional infrastructure to handle the increasing demand we are getting from customers for our cloud management technology."
What is Friday's Last Word?
Friday's Last Word welcomes cloud-centric CEOs who are willing to speak with Talkin' Cloud without a PR associate sitting next to them. Click on each photo to learn more about the CEO you're viewing.
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