Location: Mountain View, Calif.

2006 Revenue: Undisclosed

2007 Estimated Revenue: Undisclosed

Employees: 40

Founded: 2003

What he does: Produces software that searches large volumes of high-speed real-time data for patterns to facilitate tasks such as financial market data analysis, fraud detection, and network monitoring.

Why he's successful: "Kind of an interesting combination of persistence and understanding what companies want -- and then digging and doing it and not stopping until we get it right."

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