* Posts by kpar

3 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jan 2019

Underfunded HCI startup Maxta hits the buffers as VC cash runs out

kpar

Re: Maxta demise started at the top

Fair enough, I respect your experience, but that was not an opinion shared by a lot of Maxta employees. Lets agree to disagree and call it a day.

kpar

Re: Maxta demise started at the top

Thank you for recognizing our product. Maxta engineering put its heart and soul into the product and nothing gave us more pride that seeing our product successfully sustain high throughput and handle hardware failure scenarios successfully. We took great care in making sure that Maxta was an enterprise grade HCI solution with built-in Data Protection, Load balancing, Data optimization and tolerant to HW failures.

While we definitely have made mistakes and we are introspecting on them, it is unfair to assign failure of the company on a single person. Yoram(CEO) and the executive staff were constantly (re)evaluating strategies & market conditions and were never rigid in their approach.

I have been through several pitches, never did I find Maxta talking about features which were not present in the product.

We added multiple hypervisor support, which we believed to be our key differentiation and focused on core features. Yes we did not have the bells and whistles. I would have hoped people would recognize they could be easily added to the product given enough resources, given that the core product performed well.

Again, thank you for taking time out to comment on Maxta.

kpar

Re: Maxta demise started at the top

I have been an employee at Maxta for 4+ years. While we have made mistakes, we have also poured our heart and soul in to the product and supporting the customers. Yoram and the executive staff were always available, transparent and reasonable. We have had a great time working together. We have developed lifelong friendships, supported our colleagues and stood by each other through thick and thin. I have found very supportive leaders, executives who never panicked and never over-reacted through escalations. While I am not qualified enough to answer on strategy, GTM or sales, I would disagree with your assessment of lack of trust and non-existent culture.