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ZH's avatar

Good article, but how can tot miss Palo Alto Networks, which came out of CheckPoint…

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Yonatan Mandelbaum's avatar

I almost felt like putting PAN was unfair, but indeed they should be on the Checkpoint tree!

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Sharel Omer's avatar

Bravo 👏 Thanks for sharing, such an inspire group of leaders 💪

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Tzvika Barenholz's avatar

I love that you wrote about MERQ, Yonatan. I also got my start in the business working for that great company. My very first employment contract was given to me by one of the individuals in your photo shoot ;-) it was not very lucrative, but the learning curve for me and others was such that it created more and more people who could go do heavy lifting and build the ecosystem. Legendary story worthy of a movie one day.

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Uwe Flagmeyer's avatar

Thanks for this article. I really had my best time at Mercury and will never forget it.

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Tim Bisley's avatar

Fantastic post. It was an honour to work with such a talented group of people - I would love to see the global list of current "C" suite executives that was born at Merq . It would be a very long list indeed and show not only Mercury's impact on the "Start-up Nation" but the wider global tech market....

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Raz Yalov's avatar

Great post. You did get two people mixed up: Yuval should be #10 and Boaz should be #11 🤦‍♂️😂

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Yonatan Mandelbaum's avatar

Well...that's awkward. Thanks for pointing that out! I'm going to hear about that from both of them, lol. Now fixed

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