Ben Dahl, Co Founder of Unspam and Managing Director of Signal Peak | Cloudflare and the People Who Made the Internet a Better Place

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Unlimited Partners

Thomas McGannon

32 episodes

2 days ago

Join Thomas McGannon on his journey to learn - what makes great partnerships? We explore stories of people working together throughout business building, investing, community and family. While much of this is brought to you through Thomas’ work as a limited partner investor, our hope is that this podcast project finds a way to share themes and lessons for anyone looking to learn from the best partnership has to offer.

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Ben Dahl, Co Founder of Unspam and Managing Director of Signal Peak | Cloudflare and the People Who Made the Internet a Better Place

Unlimited Partners

1 hour 31 minutes 22 seconds

3 years ago

Ben Dahl, Co Founder of Unspam and Managing Director of Signal Peak | Cloudflare and the People Who Made the Internet a Better Place

This week's Unlimited Partner is Ben Dahl , an early-stage investor based in Salt Lake City. He is a Managing Director at Signal Peak Ventures, a $500M fund which specializes in relatively underserved geographies around the United States. He was also the Co-Founder at Unspam, which was the predecessor company that led to Cloudflare. He held a board seat there for over 8 years, and now at SPV is participating in a $1.25B fund launched by Cloudflare to support companies who are building on their workers platform.

Topics Include:

Growing up in Utah and being told to pursue medical school by his parents
Meeting Matthew Prince (CEO Cloudflare) at a young age
Co-Founding Unspam Technologies w/ Matthew Prince
Tech culture in SLC
Unspam's Project Honeypot as a predecessor to Cloudflare, creating an http blacklist from an IP reputation score
Getting 2nd at Techcrunch and being motivated
How Cloudflare got partners to try them out in the beginning
"I am a better advisor than an entrepreneur...and learning that earlier than later is a blessing"
Working with Co-Founders, Lee Holloway and Michelle Zatlyn at Cloudflare
Joining Signal Peak, and the importance of relationships with Founders
Datadog, Snowflake

Ben's song is The Streets of Laredo by Marty Robbins

Sponsors:

Tegus Research

My Marketplace Builder

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