GoTech2019. Fireside Chat with Maxim Konovalov, Co Founder of NGINX

In the beginning of 2019 F5, the global leader in multi-cloud application services, announced the acquisition of NGINX, an open source leader in application delivery. The sum of the deal is around USD 670 million, the press release of F5 says.
NGINX is open source software for web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming, and more. It started in 2002 out as a web server designed for maximum performance and stability. NGINX is being used on 25% of all websites in the world including Vk, Mail.ru, Yandex, McDonald's, Starbucks, Netflix and other.
The total amount of investments attracted by NGINX since 2011 will be USD 104 million (according to Crunchbase). One of the first investors of the company was Runa Capital Venture Fund, which continued investing into the company in several rounds of investments.
F5 considers the transaction to be a strategic acquisition. The NGINX brand is retained, the founders of startup Igor Sysoev and Maksim Konovalov joined F5 and continue leading NGINX. 
We invited Maxim Konovalov to GoTech Arena to tell the story of NGINX, about the most important milestones in the company’s development. What is the role of the team and the product in the startup success story, how to deal with investors. The main question of the interview is how to make global business from Russia and to win the market. 

SPEAKERS:
Maksim Konovalov, Co-Founder of NGINX
Alexey Obrovets, Moderator

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