'It was a crazy idea' - Mimecast CEO on building a tech company in the wake of the dotcom crash

Marian McHugh
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Peter Bauer on the company's humble beginnings, how he deals with the 'not so good' days as CEO, and why he doesn't regret going public in the US rather than the UK

"Brazenly ambitious" is how Mimecast CEO Peter Bauer describes the decision he and CTO Neil Murray made to co-found a tech company after the dotcom bubble of the late 90s and early 00s disastrously...

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