Scott Weiss
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Scott Weiss

American businessman

Scott Weiss is an American venture capitalist at the Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz, joining in April 2011 as the firm's fourth general partner. A native of Sarasota, Florida, he founded and was CEO of IronPort Systems, which Cisco acquired in 2007 for $830 million.2

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Born 1901.1

Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedHarvard University3
  • Date not recordedHarvard Business School3
  • Date not recordedUniversity of Florida3

Weiss received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Florida and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

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Career

Occupation: businessperson.6

Weiss was an associate at McKinsey & Company and spent his first five years out of college at Electronic Data Systems. He then headed MSN business development at Microsoft and was employee no. 13 at Hotmail, an email provider that Microsoft acquired in 1998. At Hotmail, Weiss was responsible for partnership and revenue generating business development efforts.

Prior to 2001, Weiss was the managing director and entrepreneur in residence at Idealab, a business incubator.

Weiss was vice president and general manager of Cisco's Security Technology Group, a position he assumed following Cisco's acquisition of email appliance provider IronPort Systems. Weiss co-founded IronPort Systems in 2001 with Scott Banister, with whom he had worked at Idealab. Over the next six years, IronPort Systems grew from two people into a company with 450 employees and a $200 million run rate.

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Personal life

  • Born1901, Sarasota7
  • CitizenshipUnited States8

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