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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