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David Ulevitch Biography

David A. Ulevitch (born December 10, 1981) is founder and CEO of the enterprise security company OpenDNS (acquired by Cisco) and founder of EveryDNS (acquired by Dyn). Since December, 2016, Ulevitch has been the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Security Business.

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Occasionally, I make waffles for breakfast for any employee who wants to talk to me. I make them around 8 A. M. as an incentive for people to show up early.

Up Early, People, Breakfast, Incentive, Early, Show

DNS is kind of the hamster under the hood that drives the Internet.

Kind, Internet, Hamsters, Hamster, Under

Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting.

Distracting, Running, Say, Stakes, Successful, Winning

My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday.

Birthday, Cake, Mother, Office

I grew up in Del Mar, Calif. , north of San Diego. I got my first job the summer after eighth grade at a small Internet service provider.

Summer, Jobs, San Diego, Calif, Provider

I think anything which promotes heterogeneity on the Internet promotes stability. Diversity in services, service providers, and separating the layers of the networking stack are all important.

Thinking, Diversity, Important, Providers, Stack

Maybe it's whiner's fatigue, but I'm getting tired of hearing about how hard it is to start a company and be a CEO. It's not that hard.

Tired, Hearing, Whiners, Company, Hard

Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.

Community, Engineering, Good, Google

The way that worms and viruses spread on the Internet is not that different from the way they spread in the real world, and the way you quarantine them is not that different, either.

Real, Viruses, Different, World

One of my bosses happened to be one of the early architects of some of the ways Internet providers work. He taught me how the cables connect, how the telecom providers work. . . I learned how to make my own Ethernet cables, all the way up to running a small business.

Running, Boss, Way, Internet, Connect, Telecom