Portrait of John Colgrove

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John Colgrove

Net worth $0.9B

Data management and storage · United States

Born
Oct 01, 1962
Age
63
Source
Data management and storage
Residence
Los Altos, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Children
0
Education

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Biography

  • John "Coz" Colgrove is cofounder and chief visionary officer of data management and storage company Pure Storage.
  • He helped launch the company in 2009 and took it public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2015.
  • Colgrove, who owns 4% of Pure Storage, pushed for an outside CEO from the very beginning, because he was adamant about staying in a technical role.
  • Before cofounding Pure Storage, he joined data storage company Veritas Technologies in 1989 as a founding engineer and worked there through its IPO in 1993 and Symantec's $13.5 billion acquisition of Veritas in 2005.
  • Colgrove joined Palo Alto-based venture capital firm Sutter Hill Ventures in 2009 as an entrepreneur-in-residence where he met his eventual Pure Storage cofounder John Hayes.

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