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Avery Pham and the Art of Making Hardware Disappear
The storage veteran built a career in the unglamorous space between an idea and its arrival. At VAST Data, that instinct turned hardware logistics into someone else's specialty - and made room for a much larger software ambition.
Jeff Denworth Spent Twenty Years Learning How to Sell the Invisible
Before VAST Data became a $30 billion company, its lone go-to-market founder spent three years asking hundreds of customers to imagine a machine he could not yet show them. Jeff Denworth’s real product has always been the bridge between difficult architecture and a reason to care.
Alon Horev and the Memory Beneath the Machine
The VAST Data co-founder built his career below the fashionable layers of technology. Now the self-taught engineer is betting that AI's future will be decided by memory, movement and the architecture nobody sees.
Shachar Fienblit Put the Hardest Part of AI Where Nobody Looks
Long before AI made infrastructure fashionable, Fienblit was studying how data survives failure, scale and human impatience. At VAST Data, those quiet lessons became the architecture beneath a much louder revolution.
Renen Hallak Saw the Bottleneck Before the Boom
A computer scientist who was taught neural networks did not work built VAST Data for the moment they would. Ten years later, his storage company is trying to become the operating system beneath artificial intelligence.
Dror Nahumi
Dror Nahumi is a General Partner at Norwest Venture Partners, a multi-stage global VC firm managing $15.5 billion in assets. Based in Menlo Park, California, he leads Norwest's Israeli investment portfolio - a practice he helped build since the firm established its Israel presence in 2009. A former Bell Labs research engineer who developed the RCELP speech coder (now the CDMA standard for North American cellular), Nahumi transitioned from deep tech to entrepreneurship before landing in venture capital in 2010. He has backed companies that have been acquired by Microsoft, Google, EMC, and Symantec, and has seeded unicorns including Gong.io, VAST Data, and Weka.