Draft:Ricardo Oliveira (Entrepreneur)
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Ricardo Oliveira is a Portuguese-American entrepreneur who co-founded ThousandEyes (an Internet monitoring company) in 2010. ThousandEyes raised over $110 million in venture investments and was acquired by Cisco in 2020 for a reported $1 billion USD [1].
Early Life and Education
[edit]Ricardo was born in Portugal and got his Bachelors Degree in Computer Science there. He received his Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles with Lixia Zhang as his doctoral advisor.
Career
[edit]In 2010, Ricardo started ThousandEyes with Mohit Lad whom he had worked with during his Ph.D. program at UCLA. In 2020, Cisco acquired ThousandEyes for a reported $1 billion USD. Ricardo was CTO at ThousandEyes and oversaw Product, Engineering and Research through it's journey.
References
[edit]- ^ Novet, Ari Levy,Jordan (2020-05-28). "Cisco acquires ThousandEyes for around $1 billion to make deeper push into software". CNBC. Retrieved 2024-06-07.
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