Author: seanmmasters

Lover of amazing wife, startup strategy, and simplifying all the things.

Climbing the mountain

When I joined Zerto back in 2012 I knew I was in for an adventure. At the time I was hired the company had less than 50 employees worldwide, a few dozen reseller-partners, a handful of Cloud Providers offering Zerto-as-a-Service, and a 2.0 product which usually took a couple of hours of hands-on work to get up and running. I … Continue reading Climbing the mountain →

Changing the data protection conversation

Two years ago I wrote about the top 5 questions on data protection I was hearing as a Zerto Systems Engineer (SE). Back then the conversations were typically with mid-market enterprises and covered topics of interest to System Administrators and IT Managers. These are the front-line daily warriors who usually had specific questions around interoperability with … Continue reading Changing the data protection conversation →

On Hiring

As a people manager for the last several years I've spoken with well over a thousand candidates. Taking in to account my job openings as well as those held by other hiring managers (a lot of the early employees at Zerto act as "trusted advisers" to each other as well as "culture checks" to newer hiring … Continue reading On Hiring →