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Mimecast co-founder Peter Bauer on running a UK unicorn and taking it public

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It’s not uncommon for people to complain about the hundreds of emails landing in their already crowded inboxes on a daily basis (I am one of them!). But these are not just an unsolicited addition to employees’ workload, they can also pose a significant security threat to businesses.

Peter Bauer, CEO and co-founder of cloud-based email management firm Mimecast, is trying to put an end to this. Founded in 2003, and with over $89m in funding secured, Mimecast employs approximately 800 people in offices across the globe and claims to serve just under 22,000 customers.

A publicly listed company since it IPO’ed on New York’s infamous Nasdaq exchange little over a year ago, Mimecast has come a long way since its humble beginnings in the early 2000s....