PCU Top Event Dominik Grolimund (Wuala)

Dominik Grolimund, co-founder und CEO von Wuala, wird uns die gesamte Geschichte von Wuala, von den Anfängen an der ETH über die Gründung, dem Launch, Roadshow im Silicon Valley etc. bis hin zum Exit erzählen. Inklusive einigen "Lessons Learned".

Short Bio
Dominik Grolimund, co-founder and CEO of Wuala (www.wuala.com), Swiss, is 29 years old and studied computer science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). In 1998, he founded his first software company, Caleido (www.caleido.com), which was very successful. In 2004, he started research and development on Wuala, a novel grid-based online storage, at ETH Zurich. After 4 years of development, they successfully launched Wuala in August 2008. In early 2009, he sold the company to LaCie, the French-American manufacturer of external storage solutions, and joined the management team of LaCie to work on the future of storage solutions.

About Wuala
Wuala is an innovative online storage which allows its users to securely store, backup, and access files from anywhere and to share files easily with family, friends, and co-workers. Wuala is based on a revolutionary technology that was researched for the most part at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich). Users start with 1 GB of storage but can get as much as they want, either by trading idle disk space or by buying additional storage. All files are encrypted on the user's computer and the user chooses who gets access to which folder. For more information, visit www.wuala.com.

Datum:
Dienstag, 20. Oktober 2009