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Founder388Current founder
99th percentile
Investor26Current investor
69th percentile
Combined
5x founder and CEO of Zscaler, a $25B public cloud security company
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
Traction · 98th percentile
- Zscaler (founded by Jay Chaudhry) went public on NASDAQ in March 2018 and currently trades at a ~$25.5B market cap.
- Founded companies acquired for a combined ~$344M: SecureIT acquired by VeriSign for ~$70M and CipherTrust acquired by Secure Computing for ~$274M (CoreHarbor and AirDefense also acquired, prices undisclosed).
- Zscaler is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: ZS) with $2.7B in annual revenue and is profitable.
- Raised a total of ~$148M in venture capital across his founded companies.
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current founder and CEO of Zscaler, Inc., which he founded in 2007 and continues to lead.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Received the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2018 Award in the Public Companies in Tech category in Northern California — a nationally recognized entrepreneurship honor.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Past founder of SecureIT, CoreHarbor, CipherTrust, and AirDefense — all successfully exited.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Wikipedia entity exists for Jay Chaudhry — a recognized public figure in technology entrepreneurship.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Zscaler (founded by Jay Chaudhry) went public on NASDAQ in March 2018 and currently trades at a ~$25.5B market cap.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)115,972 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)zscaler.com ranks #8,330 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Google maintains a Knowledge Graph panel for Jay Chaudhry as CEO of Zscaler — a hard-to-manufacture notability threshold.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Zscaler is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: ZS) with $2.7B in annual revenue and is profitable.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Subject of multiple dedicated feature profiles in Fortune magazine, including coverage of his entrepreneurial journey and company-building track record.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Founded companies acquired for a combined ~$344M: SecureIT acquired by VeriSign for ~$70M and CipherTrust acquired by Secure Computing for ~$274M (CoreHarbor and AirDefense also acquired, prices undisclosed).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Raised a total of ~$148M in venture capital across his founded companies.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Wikipedia page for Jay Chaudhry averages ~9,179 views per month — a meaningful public notability signal.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Top corroborated YouTube video 'Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry: For every employee, there will be 50 to 100 AI agents' has ~23,045 views — thought-leadership reach.
Investor score
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Publicly identified as an angel investor, with at least one tracked investment (Securiti) per CBInsights.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Has made at least 1 tracked active investment (Securiti) per CBInsights.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Portfolio company Securiti was acquired (undisclosed value), per CBInsights exit data.
- 50%Probability of being accurate (50%)Approximately 5 years of tracked investing activity based on publicly documented angel investments.
What you likely need
As the founder and CEO of a $25B public cybersecurity company with five successful exits under your belt, you'd benefit most from peer-level exchanges with other founder-CEOs who've scaled public companies and navigated the transition from growth to profitability. Events focused on enterprise go-to-market strategy, AI-driven security product positioning, and board-level governance would be most relevant to where Zscaler is today.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA private dinner for founder-CEOs of public enterprise software companies to share lessons on scaling ARR past $2B and managing Wall Street expectations.
- tacticalA roundtable with Fortune 500 CISOs and enterprise security founders to pressure-test AI-native zero trust product roadmaps.
- introsA dinner for serial founders with 3+ exits to exchange playbooks on building and selling companies in the enterprise security space.
- positioningA workshop on positioning AI-agent security platforms to enterprise buyers, given Zscaler's public pivot toward AI-driven threat protection.
- introsAn angel investor happy hour with other founder-CEOs who actively back cybersecurity and infrastructure startups to share deal flow.
- introsAn IIT alumni founder dinner connecting Indian-American tech entrepreneurs who've built and scaled US-listed companies.
- tacticalA governance roundtable for founder-CEOs who retained the chairman role post-IPO, covering board dynamics and long-term capital allocation.