New Billionaire: Todd McKinnon’s Cloud Security Company Is Booming As More Americans Work From Home

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Through big bets, Todd McKinnon grew his cloud security company, Okta, into a $27 billion business. Now the largest opportunity of his career has landed in his lap: a worldwide pandemic by Noah_Kirsch

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As he navigates his conscience, McKinnon will also have to navigate the fragmented cloud security landscape—Microsoft, Ping, IBM, Oracle—and answer questions about whether Okta merits its sky-high market value. “We believe the valuation may have gotten frothy,” attests Mark Cash, an equity research analyst at Morningstar who is bullish on Okta in the long-run.To McKinnon, Okta’s selling point is simple.

in 1989 to study business instead. From there he earned his master’s in computer science from California Polytechnic State University in 1995, just as the dot-com era was heating up.Salesforce , joined him soon after, and they tinkered on their initial concept: software that would help companies measure the reliability of their cloud-based applications. “Like constant EKG of all these key metrics for your servers,” says Kerrest. But it turned out that no one cared enough about cloud reliability. “[Customers] would say, ‘Yeah, well, that's an interesting problem. But that's problem number four,’” Kerrest recalls. The real issue: companies couldn’t securely manage their users.

 

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