Tanium: The Father and Son Who Sold BigFix to IBM, Then Spent Five Years in Silence Building Something 10,000 Times Faster
David Hindawi, an Iraqi-born immigrant with a Berkeley Ph.D. in operations research, and his son Orion built the endpoint management company BigFix starting in 1997 and sold it to IBM in 2010. In 2007 they had already started Tanium with a dozen BigFix engineers, aiming to query and control every computer on a huge network in seconds instead of days. They worked with no sales or marketing staff for five years, took no venture money for seven, and stunned Andreessen Horowitz with a live demo part
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