Business Daily meets: Mohit Lad
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
From losing his job in the 2008 financial crash, to a billion dollar idea.
We speak to Mohit Lad, who teamed up with his old college friend Ricardo to trawl through the trash cans of shuttered businesses in Silicon Valley to get the first server for their tech start-up, ThousandEyes.
A combination of grit, determination and a shortage of ready cash saw them think outside the box for solutions to grow the business and get customers.
Twelve years later, the company described as the 'Google Maps' of the internet is now part of Cisco and is still going strong today.
Listen to the full story behind the business and learn about Mohit's vision for a connected world.
Presented and produced by Sam Clack.
(Image: Mohit Lad speaks during a keynote address on June 07, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | In our restless world, the news never stops. |
| 0:03.1 | There's always something happening somewhere. |
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| 0:15.5 | Search for it wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
| 0:21.7 | Hello, I'm Sam Clack, and in this edition of Business Daily, I'll be finding out how |
| 0:26.2 | uncontrollable life events can lead to the inspiration behind a billion-dollar idea. |
| 0:31.3 | Till this day, I feel like that layoff was the most fortunate thing that ever happened to me. |
| 0:35.7 | When software engineer Mohit Ladd was made |
| 0:38.1 | redundant in the financial crash of 2008, he faced a choice, find work to keep a roof over his |
| 0:44.2 | head or grow an entirely new company from the ground up. He chose the second option, setting up |
| 0:49.6 | thousand eyes, which he calls the Google Maps of the internet with his friend Ricardo in San Francisco, |
| 0:55.5 | California. In the years that followed, the pair would take their Silicon Valley startup from rummaging |
| 1:00.8 | in company trash for servers to a big beast, which has been bought out by the tech giant Cisco. |
| 1:06.8 | In this edition of Business Daily Meets, Mohit describes his journey in detail and explains why he still has faith in the good the internet could bring to the world. |
| 1:18.9 | Before we get into the conversation with Mohit, let's get up to speed on exactly what Thousand Eyes is with my colleague Leanna Byrne. |
| 1:25.8 | The company makes software that's mainly used by large fintech firms, |
| 1:30.6 | which rely on a complex but invisible network of interconnected digital services to keep business flowing. |
| 1:37.5 | Thousand Eyes lets them look at this network, almost like an x-ray machine, |
| 1:41.9 | scanning the internet all over the world and highlighting any |
| 1:44.9 | faults. It means that any outages are shown in real time so they can be fixed and keep vital |
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