4 posts and columns on SolarWinds

Asana Hires "COO-Type"–Van Zant First Biz Side Hire for Workplace Collaboration Start-Up

in News on March 21, 2011 at 6:19 pm PT

As it gets ramped up for a wider launch, Asana, the high-profile group collaboration start-up founded by top former Facebook execs, has hired former SolarWinds product strategy exec Kenny Van Zant in a “COO-type of role.” Co-founders Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein remain at the top of the leadership at the San Francisco company, which–perhaps in keeping with its yoga-style name–does not have official titles. But Van Zant will essentially fulfill the COO role, focusing on bringing Asana to the enterprise market in a socially-fueled “bottom-up” approach.

How Andreessen Horowitz Evaluates CEOs

in News on May 30, 2010 at 1:22 pm PT

No position in a company is more important than the CEO, and as a result, no job gets more scrutiny. Sadly, little of this analysis benefits CEOs, as most of the discussions happen behind their backs. This post is a step in the opposite direction. By describing how Andreessen Horowitz evaluates CEOs, I am at the same time describing what I think the job of the CEO is.

LogMeIn: IPO Drought? Feh…

in News on July 1, 2009 at 9:50 am PT

Earlier this week John Fitzgibbon, founder of IPOScoop.com, said that LogMeIn was an IPO “candidate that should blow the socks off people.” Looks like he was right.
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A Software IPO! SolarWinds Prices At $12.50 a Share

in News on May 20, 2009 at 7:40 am PT

Wow, an actual, honest-to-goodness, venture-backed software IPO. We’re getting one today.