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Mark Leslie

ROLE FORMER CEOMENTIONS 2LAST SEEN JULY 13, 2026
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Mark Leslie is a Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the managing director of Leslie Ventures, a private investment company. He is best known as the founding Chairman and CEO of Veritas Software, where he led the company from 12 employees and $95,000 in annual revenue to 6,000 employees and $1.5 billion in revenue, making it a Fortune 1000 company. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in physics and mathematics from New York University in 1966 and completed Harvard Business School's Program for Management Development in 1980.

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mention·Sourcery Newsletter·JULY 14, 2026

one of the 'wise people' he said taught him to demand a great deal of himself and others.

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mention·Sourcery·JULY 13, 2026

There's a CEO, former CEO named Mark Leslie. He was CEO of Veritas. They invented the file system. And these were sort of wise people. And they had extraordinarily high standards.

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