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Company type | Division |
---|---|
Industry | Computer networking |
Founded | United States |
Founder | Pasha Roberts, Firdaus Bhathena |
Fate | Acquired by Cisco Systems |
Headquarters | Burlington, Massachusetts |
Parent | Cisco Systems |
Webline Communications was a contact management company based in Burlington, Massachusetts. Their products included cloud collaboration and email management tools. It was acquired by Cisco Systems on September 22, 1999. [1]
Webline Communications was founded in 1996 [1] by Pasha Roberts and Firdaus Bhathena when they were students at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge MA. Pasha, Firdaus and Webline won the prestigious MIT 50K Entrepreneurial Business contest which provided seed money to begin the company. After winning this contest, Pasha put his MIT studies on hold to take full advantage of the seed money and focus on making the company financially successful. Pasha is widely credited for the innovation, technology design, architecture, infrastructure and technology decisions around the products. Pasha returned to complete his master's degree at MIT Sloan. Firdaus is credited with the sales and marketing of these solutions into business accounts.
Several marquis customers including Fidelity, General Motors, Oracle, Toys "R" Us, and internet retailer Lands End embraced and implemented important Webline solutions.
Webline was sold to Cisco Systems in 1999 for $325 million and integrated into Cisco's software / call center strategy. At the time of its acquisition, the company employed 120 people. [1]
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