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
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.
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.
