, the cloud security company he founded in 2007, which is valued at $28.56 billion as of Monday morning. But the 65-year-old entrepreneur has never used money as a measure of success, he says."I think it's to make a difference in the world," Chaudhry tells CNBC Make It."Our life is too precious. It's too short waste your time."
Chaudhry left behind a successful career as a tech executive to start his first company after reading about how internet startups, like Netscape, were growing in the mid-1990s. He had a good job with financial security, yet he couldn't help but think:"There may be an opportunity to make a big difference'" if more companies got on the internet, he says.
That mindset is also what keeps Chaudhry motivated to continue working hard well into his 60s, rather than thinking about retiring with a net worth that Forbes estimates at roughly