40 Under 40: Part II
Our next set of 40 Under 40 entrepreneurs love animals and adrenaline sports, and has a weakness for hot sauce. We can't promise hot sauce, but we can promise a good time at the Feb. 12 celebration of all 40 honorees. Sign up!
Rami Essaid
Distil Networks
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Rami Essaid, 31, started Distil Networks in his 20s in 2011 and has grown it to 45 employees and recently opened an office in San Francisco. Distil, which has raised $13M in outside funding, developed a SaaS Bot detection and migration solution, released in 2013, that stops automated attacks against websites. Customers include enterprises, e-commerce SMBs, digital publishing and online directories. Rami, who started his first company out of college, says Distil’s biggest milestone, aside from generating revenue, is that not a single person has quit since its founding.
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Five things you don’t about Rami:
- He loves animals – he has three dogs and often fosters dogs and cats for their rehabilitation.
- He enjoys adrenaline sports and activities, including snowboarding, sky diving, surfing, scuba diving and flying planes.
- His bucket list includes seeing all the seven wonders of the ancient world.
- He’s an immigrant of Syrian and Lebanese descent.
- His biggest fear is he'll stop learning.