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Gil Shwed’s next problem: an empty calendar
He helped turn the firewall into a business and spent three decades running Check Point. Then Gil Shwed handed over the CEO job and began learning what to do with the space it left behind.
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Check Point Software Technologies
Check Point Software Technologies is an Israeli cybersecurity company founded in 1993 that pioneered the modern firewall with its stateful inspection technology. Today it runs the Infinity platform - a unified, AI-powered security architecture spanning network (Quantum), cloud (CloudGuard), and workspace (Harmony) - protecting more than 100,000 organizations across roughly 60 countries. Publicly traded on NASDAQ as CHKP, it reported about $2.73 billion in 2025 revenue.
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