He was inspired to be a software engineer by a Steve Jobs campus visit—his company just sold for $28 billion

In 2003, Baum and two friends — Rob Das and Erik Swan — co-founded Splunk, a San Francisco-based company that helps companies monitor and analyze large stores of data. More recently, Splunk developed cybersecurity tools that rely on artificial intelligence to monitor machine-generated data for potential threats., it was valued at roughly $1.6 billion.

In his retirement, Baum has refashioned himself as a vintner: He moved his family to France's Burgundy region in 2014 and bought the Château de Pommard winery, where he's currently the owner and operator. The"inquisitive nature" that drove him to learn more about Jobs' Macintosh computers"continues to drive me today," Baum told The Gentleman Magazine.DON'T MISS: Want to be smarter and more successful with your money, work & life?

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