Mohit Aron is an Indian-American computer scientist, businessman, and entrepreneur. He co-founded a company that successfully completed an IPO with a valuation of more than $6 billion today, and has raised more than $400 million for a second venture which has already surpassed the billion dollar valuation. After getting his Ph.D. from Rice University in Houston, Mohit made the move to the Valley. After an early stint at Google where he worked as a project manager, Mohit has gone on to create highly impactful ventures that have become a large part of the DNA of our tech today.
Mohit was one of Google’s early developers working on Google’s filing system. As a result of his efforts and early work for the company, he received Google shares at $2 per share. Selling those shares gave him financial freedom, and refusing just to stay comfortable he ventured out into building companies from the ground up himself. Mohit takes a very different approach to cultivating startup ideas than most. Rather than jumping on the first idea, running with it, and then getting an office, he has taken the time to build the architecture of those ideas and really get clarity before diving in. Nutanix, which became one of the early unicorns, hitting a $6 billion valuation and going public, first rented office space just to develop and crystallize the idea and looks to further grow its ventures.