Any thoughts on Nikesh Arora replacing Mark McLaughlin as CEO at Palo Alto Networks?
Nikesh has plenty of experience, and is certainly qualified, however, I don't think anyone will ever truly replace Mark as he seemed to be a very unique and special case. I do think Nikesh has a lot to prove though , this being his first CEO job, so my worry is that he will try to shake things up just to put his mark down... Hopefully the board (including Mark) will be able to guide him to making meaningful changes for the right purposes.
To me hopefully the big change is making panw a software giant rather than the hardware business it's known for so far. The firewall business is still big but panw really needs to start focusing more on other areas of the enterprise security market. Another big challenge for Nikesh would be the fragmented enterprise security market which may not be as big in terms of growth as the other areas he has handled before
You had better luck at not attracting trolls than I did. Seems like all Blind is good for is whining and talking about TC. By all accounts, the guy is really sharp. I hope he is emotionally grounded as well.
He’s not.
Why is Mark being replaced when the company is doing good?
Mark has stated he is retiring to spend time with his family. I doubt the board wanted him out.
Yeah usually the "spend time with family" line is BS but given that he's staying on the board it's definitely an amicable split, even if that's not the whole story
Anyone know how people that have worked for him feel about him? Worried about culture
"I may not have a background in security, but with my background as an engineer, I can sit down with Zuk to help guide the next generation of products we can offer" said Arora. Bye-bye quality of security products...
Guiding a product doesn't mean guiding the engineering for a CEO. It means guiding the marketing, sales, organization of people, customer handling, but almost never engineering. I wonder why a competitor's employee would suggest our product quality would go downhill 🤔
As far as I know he doesn’t have ceo experience but he definitely is very smart. He also gonna work to prove that he has what it takes to be ceo since he didn’t get chance at SoftBank and left
he had 20k reports (L-team) at Google.
Yes but role and responsibilities of ceo differs than vp of 20k reports