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"In the beginning, my mother was worried about my job stability": Gil Schweid speaks
"26 years that Gil Schweid, founder of Check Point, has served as CEO of the company. These are also 26 years in which Schweid worked daily from the office until the corona arrived. How did Schweid's parents react when he founded the company at such a young age and what were the challenges?" Talk ", the personal stories behind the successes
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Mikey Levy
Thursday, 21 January 2021, 10:48
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It's 26 years that Gil Schweid, founder of Check Point, has served as the company's CEO. It's also 26 years that Schweid worked every day from the firm, until Corona arrived and changed everything we know. "I always believed in working together.
We have one campus of development and management, and I have always worked only from the office.
I have never worked from home all my life, even when I was young, I never worked from home.
So my agenda was very clear: I get up in the morning and go to the office, and in the evening come home to friends and family.
They hardly bring work home, "Schweid said in the" Tech Talk "podcast.
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"In the beginning, my mother was worried about my job stability" (Photo: Reuven Castro)
When did you realize that you had established a company that was going to revolutionize the field?
"I believed in the idea from the beginning. The turning point for me was in the middle of 1994, a year later. (Then Schweid was 27) We presented the product at an exhibition in Las Vegas and won the 'Best Product of the Exhibition' award, and we understood that the world looks at it and there is interest," he said. Shoid.
How did the parents react to the fact that as a discharged soldier, you set out for independence and establishing a company in a field that was still in its infancy?
"I was independent from a young age. My mother passed away many years ago, and a few months ago during the Corona, we received letters from my mother's friends sitting in their deceased mother's house. They found a letter my mother wrote to their mother, and she wrote there how my brother is great, but That she's a little bothered by my job stability. 'That I do all sorts of weird things.' She referred to Check Point. She used such a term that I do not work in a tidy company. But as I said, I feel I got a lot of support but I was very independent. "Check Point - almost no one has seen me. The only two years in my life that I invested 100% of my employment at Check Point and saw almost no family and friends," said Schweid.
The personal stories behind the successes: Listen to Gil Schweid hosted on the "Tech Talk" podcast
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