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Business of Tech | Rob Rae joins Pax8 as Corporate VP of Community and Ecosystems

Rob Rae, the longtime face of Datto and well-known among MSPs, has started a new role as the corporate vice president of community and ecosystems at Pax8.  This is a new role for the company. 

Why do we care?

Look, that’s the whole story. The reason to care is to revisit the prediction I made in November during our IT Nation Livestream.  

My prediction – he would come in with a senior executive title, and it would not be a small company.     He also would want that level of control.      He wouldn’t show up at a large, established company. And he would like something slightly different.

And it turns out those were right.   I was wrong in my prediction to align with Austin McChord.  

He picks a place where he gets a corporate VP title, presumably budget control, with growth aspirations.     Good for him.   

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