Leaving Datto
Channel Futures: Can you take us back to last fall and the decision that led to your exit from Datto?
Pax8’s Rob Rae: It was really simple. I had been with the organization for nine-and-a-half years. I watched it grow from its infancy to what it became. We accomplished several things over the course of that time between growing the organization – I was involved in growing it worldwide – and expanding into bigger and bigger markets, watching the managed services areas grow. We went through venture capital, private equity, an IPO and then back private again. In my mind, it was just time to go into something new.