Career
Previously, Michael was Founder and CEO of Splunk (SPLK), the "big data" software company that invented ways to make sense of large-scale machine data. As CEO, he built a diverse and passionate team that quickly grew Splunk from a geeky idea to the fastest growing software company in Silicon Valley. A pioneer of the freemium, bottom-up, low-friction business model, Splunk has millions of users and thousands of customers in more than 45 countries around the world.
FOUNDER.org is a non-profit with a mission to inspire students to chase big ideas and become founders of impactful companies that drive innovation and economic growth. We strive to achieve this mission with four initiatives.
- School Sponsorships - to support innovation and entrepreneur programs.
- $100K Competition - annual competition awarding ten $100K grants to student startups.
- FOUNDER.org University - 12 month founder education and mentoring program.
- FOUNDER.org Capital - a Venture Capital fund for student startups.
The partner schools include Carnegie Mellon, Harvard Business School, MIT, New York University, Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania and University of Texas at Austin.