George Kurtz is the co-founder and CEO of cybersecurity company CrowdStrike.
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10 Facts About George Kurtz
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George Kurtz was the founder of Foundstone and chief technology officer of McAfee.
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George Kurtz grew up in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey and attended Parsippany High School.
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George Kurtz went on to build bulletin board systems in high school.
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George Kurtz graduated from Seton Hall University with a degree in accounting.
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Over time, George Kurtz became frustrated that existing security technology functioned slowly and was not, as he perceived it, evolving at the pace of new threats.
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In November 2011, George Kurtz joined private equity firm Warburg Pincus as an "entrepreneur-in-residence" and began working on his next project, CrowdStrike.
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George Kurtz pitched the idea for the company to Warburg Pincus and secured $25 million in funding.
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George Kurtz developed a "cloud-first" model in order to reduce the software load on customers' computers.
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