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David Ulevitch

General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz / Entrepreneur / American Dynamism! πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸš€

New York, New York

Skills

Security
Cloud Computing
Management
DNS
Network Security
Scalability
Marketing
Computer Security
Network Architecture
Performance Management
Writing
Journalism
Firewalls
SaaS
Linux
Leadership Development
Networking
DNS administration
IPv6
FreeBSD

Education

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2018

    Investing in making things better, faster, safer, smarter. Major investments include: Anduril, Flock Safety, Prepared, Aerodome, Skydio, and many more. Started and run the American Dynamism practice w/ my partner Katherine Boyle.

  • Member Board of Trustees

    2022

    Wash U was good to me, I try to be good to Wash U.

2005 - 2018

  • Senior Vice President / General Manager

    2016 - 2018

    SVP/GM Cisco Security Business Had the privilege to lead one of the largest and fastest-growing cybersecurity vendor in the world while having lots of fun and working with great people.

  • Vice President / General Manager

    2015 - 2016

    Cisco acquired OpenDNS for $635 million on August 27, 2015 and all 300+ OpenDNS employees joined Cisco in the Security Business Group. πŸ‘πŸ‘

  • CEO & Founder (OpenDNS)

    2005 - 2015

    I drove the vision, hired incredible talent, and made sure the team had everything they need to deliver an innovative, effective, and successful security service. We were backed by a terrific group of board members and investors including: Michael Goguen @ Sequoia Capital, Dave Strohm @ Greylock Partners, and Stefan Dyckerhoff @ Sutter Hill Ventures. I was the Founder, CEO and occasional nighttime janitor. I couldn't be more proud of our entire team and all that we accomplished.

  • Board Member

    2013 - 2016

    Due to my commitments at Cisco I have stepped back from serving on the board of this incredible organization. I will continue to support the foundation as a donor and friend. The Tony Hawk Foundation seeks to foster lasting improvements in society, with an emphasis on supporting and empowering youth in disadvantaged communities. Since 2002, the foundation has provided more than 500 grants and community support to enable the creation of public skateboard parks that promote healthy, active lifestyles and positive after-school activities.

Various Startups

2005 - 2016

  • Advisor

    2005 - 2016

    Due to my commitments at Cisco I have stopped advising startups. I don't have time to be an advisor right now, so I'll help you help yourself. Every two or three weeks you should send out an email to your close circle with the following: 1) What'd you say you were going to do? 2) What'd you do? Highlights and Lowlights. How'd it go? What would have been better? 3) What are you going to do next? 4) What keeps you up at night? If you do that, you'll already be more focused than most CEOs.

2015 - 2016

  • Board Member

    2015 - 2016

    Due to my commitments at Cisco I have decided to step back from my role as a member of the board of directors. I will continue to root for this terrific company from the sidelines. Kentik is the traffic intelligence company, offering the industry's first purpose-built big data SaaS platform that turns huge volumes of NetFlow and other network data into actionable insights. Assure service delivery, detect DDoS, optimize Internet routing, and unleash innovation with unbounded ad-hoc traffic analysis at scale.

EveryDNS.Net

2001 - 2010

  • Founder

    2001 - 2010

    [ In January, 2010, I sold the company to Dyn Inc.] I founded EveryDNS.Net and have watched it grow to become the world's largest free DNS service. Together with a team of outstanding volunteers we manage a global userbase providing 100% uptime and full customer service. EveryDNS has been cash positive since its inception using our revenue to drive our growth and maintain our well-respected stability. We have servers located within strategic network points in North Amerca and Europe with plans to expand into the Asia and Pacific Rim regions.

2004 - 2005

  • Director of Network Operations

    2004 - 2005

    I made sure that all the 1's and 0's got to the right people at the right time at the right place -- 24x7x365. I built a low cost network that scaled reliably from 30-40 million daily pageviews to over 350 million daily pageviews on a budget of under $200,000. This was a multi-homed network spanning three datacenters across the country built on commodity hardware and custom software.

California Community Colocation Project

2002 - 2005

  • Director of Operations

    2002 - 2005

    This job has been taken over by the capable and talented Mr. John Glass.

  • Network Operations Assistant

    2003 - 2004

    I was the first student to ever hold this role.