[terracatta]

Kevin Mandia was always incredible at finding a grade A talent pipeline of IR professionals that enabled Mandiant to always be the folks that responded to the incidents "that mattered" (his words).

Their APT-1 report (https://www.mandiant.com/resources/apt1-exposing-one-of-chin... they released in 2013 was at the time unprecedented and brought awareness to nation-state sponsored hacking to a much broader audience than ever before.

As someone who worked there in the early days (a little over 100+ employees) as an entry-level peon, I always felt I had the ability to walk into Kevin's office at anytime and tell him something I thought was important and get attention and respect back.

While much of the organization has changed in the last 3 years, the constant has always been Kevin and the amount of work they put in to recover from the disastrous FireEye acquisition, preserve the brand's integrity, and to parlay that into such a positive acquisition for the employees and shareholders is an incredible outcome.

Congratulations to both Google and Mandiant.

[uejfiweun]

When I was a FireEye intern, I got to meet Kevin Mandia and it really left an impression on me. He came up to me unprompted after an all hands and introduced himself, and seemed genuinely interested in me and what I was working on. Then, my co-intern came up, and Mandia actually remembered his name and everything from his previous internship at the company. I remember thinking, this is a great and highly motivating CEO. It's awesome to see that his hard work has paid off, I hope I get to work with him directly someday.

[Folcon]

The link above has a typo, here's the corrected link: https://www.mandiant.com/resources/apt1-exposing-one-of-chin...

[orf]

What happened with the FireEye acquisition?

[dmhmr]

FireEye was nowhere on the same level as Mandiant and the two companies split and FE was purchased by STG for $1.2 billion.