Tintri has historically held its sales kickoff in the Bay Area to be close to headquaters. This year we went to Las Vegas instead, at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. I don't like going to Las Vegas; among the reasons is cigarette smoke and the Hard Rock is no exception ( Read more... )

This sounds like my personal version of hell:

What would you call the immediacy of Instagram; the impulsiveness of Tinder; and the exclusivity of a private Playboy Mansion event - all wrapped up into a new Super App? We call it a helluva lot of fun! Our client is about to fundamentally disrupt the traditional advertising/promotional model for ( Read more... )

The current rumor is that Cisco may purchase SpringPath, a recently-launched startup that makes a "hyperconverged" software solution. http://m.crn.com/news/data-center/300079048/cisco- ( Read more... )

I've written before about how Tintri's best public comparable is Nimble, and NMBL's price has been pretty flat despite revenue growth ( Read more... )

Tintri is on TechCrunch's "Unicorn Leaderboard" http://techcrunch.com/unicorn-leaderboard/ but at the very bottom. We have not disclosed a valuation, ever. (Also, as of this writing, our sector is listed as "healthcare." Don't believe everything you read on the Internet ( Read more... )

Tintri made a bunch of product announcements today. We introduced our first all-flash storage appliances, the T5060 and T5080, which run the same Tintri OS as the hybrid models ( Read more... )

Pure Storage filed their form S-1 in preparation for an IPO. It contains a few surprises ( Read more... )

Our CFO gave the company an informal chat about our recent financing round today ( Read more... )

Tintri announced our "Series F" funding round, led by Silver Lake. They do a lot of late-stage and private equity investment--- for example, Silver Lake also announced a $1b investment in Motorola today! It's great to get a vote of confidence from a sophisticated investor with deep pockets ( Read more... )

Here's a Bill Gross talk at TED about why startups fail. Mr. Gross identifies five factors that might influence a startup's success, analyzes 250 startups according to those factors, and analyzes the results ( Read more... )