Podcast #2 - Founder of Edgeos
We had Jay Jacobson, founder of Opnix and Edgeos join us this morning for in an interview where he tells us about how he came to found both companies and some of the mistakes he made in the process and lessons he learned along the way. Jay is one of the foremost experts on network security in Arizona and is home two days after attending Defcon in Las Vegas. Leave questions or comments for Jay on this page and subscribe to future Venturecast interviews by clicking the pink podcast button in the upper-left of the page. Read more from Jay on his personal site Kinetic.org. Ladies- note: Jay IS single. Enjoy!
August 9th, 2006 at 3:56 pm
[…] The latest in our Venturecast series is an interview I did today with Jay Jacobson, the founder of the hosted network security solution provider called Edgeos. Get it here while it’s hot! Pass it along:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. […]
August 9th, 2006 at 5:16 pm
[…] Grid7 Venturecast #2 with Jay Jacobson is now online. Jay is a serial entrepreneur and security expert who is best known for founding Opnix and his current company Edgeos. Jay recently moved back to Arizona after spending a year living in San Francisco. He talks about his experiences at Opnix, Edgeos and his earlier ventures and along the way provides some good advice for new entrepreneurs. […]
August 9th, 2006 at 11:05 pm
question1: Jay, how did you get so damn good looking.
question2: What is your perspective on following your passion and making it profitable(as a business model) vs analyzing the market and reducing perceived effort?
August 10th, 2006 at 1:21 am
Susan: Thank you for checking out the podcast. For your first question, I guess it is just in the eye of the beholder. :) I am not sure I completely understand your second question. Are you asking for my perspective on just following one’s passion and finding a way to make it work, versus a more analytical approach of looking at a market need and going that direction? I am not sure what “perceived effort” has to do with it; either approach would be a lot of work. First and foremost, I believe in following your passion. I do not build companies/technologies for the money - I do it because I truly love it. I am happy that some of those ventures have been profitable, but my first priority has always been to do something which I am passionate about. That is what brings me happiness and everything else is just icing on the proverbial cake.
Thanks for the comments. If you have any other questions or would like to discuss it more, feel free to shoot me an email .
August 11th, 2006 at 7:28 pm
I enjoyed this latest PodCast with Jay a bunch. I was in the GoodNet training class with Jay back when we both started there. :)