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December 13th, 2023
“Not Exactly This” — How Sanjay Beri Hatched Netskope
He’s sixteen and raising cash for college, performing IT support for Microsoft in Toronto, Canada. His boss pushes him a help desk ticket and says, “Go to the President’s office and fix his problem.” He thinks, wow, I’d better not mess this up. But then he sees that the big boss merely miswired a cable. “I left that room, going, ‘I can do this,’” recalls Sanjay Beri, who would later make good on that vow.
Viewed through the kaleidoscope of time, Sanjay’s trajectory to leading a tech company wit