Rank #523
Jay Chaudhry
Net worth $7.4B
Security software · United States
- Born
- Aug 26, 1959
- Age
- 66
- Source
- Security software
- Residence
- Reno, Nevada
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Bachelor of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, BHU
Net worth over time
Biography
- Jay Chaudhry is CEO of Zscaler, a cybersecurity firm he founded in 2008. It went public in March 2018.
- He and his family own around 35% of the Nasdaq-listed firm.
- Before Zscaler, Chaudhry founded four other tech companies that were all acquired: SecureIT, CoreHarbor, CipherTrust and AirDefense.
- In 1996, Chaudhry and his wife, Jyoti, both quit their jobs and used their life savings to start cybersecurity firm SecureIT, his first startup.
- His hometown, a village in the Himalayas in India, did not have electricity or running water until he was in the 8th and 10th grade, respectively.
- Chaudhry moved to the U.S. in 1980 to attend graduate school and now lives in Nevada, after relocating from the Bay Area.
- Chaudhry's first time on a plane was his flight to the U.S. in 1980, after he was admitted to an engineering and management masters program at U. of Cincinnati.
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