{"id":1170543,"date":"2022-08-08T13:25:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/08\/ping-identity-ceo-discusses-his-companys-long-strange-startup-trip\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T13:25:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:25:55","slug":"ping-identity-ceo-discusses-his-companys-long-strange-startup-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/08\/ping-identity-ceo-discusses-his-companys-long-strange-startup-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Ping Identity CEO discusses his company\u2019s long, strange startup trip \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\"><span class=\"featured__span-first-words\">Ping Identity was<\/span> in the news last week with a huge deal to sell itself to private equity investors after several years as a public company.<\/p>\n<p>Ping CEO Andre Durand launched his identity company way back in 2002, raising around $128 million in venture funding along the way. In a 2015 interview with , Durand talked about going public within a year or two. That didn\u2019t happen, at least not then, but what <em>did<\/em> happen may be one of the stranger founder tales ever told \u2014 one with twists and turns Durand admits he could never have imagined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no way I could have predicted the series of events which ultimately led me here. First of all, there\u2019s always multiple ways to grow, multiple ways to succeed. There\u2019s not one path. That\u2019s something I\u2019ve come to kind of appreciate and realize,\u201d Durand told me in an interview last week, during which he discussed his unusual startup journey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ping Identity was in the news last week with a huge deal to sell itself to private equity investors after several years as a public company. Ping CEO Andre Durand launched his identity company way back in 2002, raising around $128 million in venture funding along the way. In a 2015 interview with , Durand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1170545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}