RISHI KACKER AND MATT PAUKER

http://www.voltage.com

Net Worth: $50 million

Matt Pauker,24  and Rishi Kacker,24 are the cofounders of Voltage security. Voltage makes security software that can encrypt documents, files, and e-mails at the touch of a button.

Kacker and Pauker worked on the technology as a summer research project while attending Stanford. They won the contest. Along with bragging rights came venture-capital interest and a year’s free legal advice from the marquee law firm to Silicon Valley startups, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati. With the help of some seasoned executives, the two have created a thriving security-software business with more than 130 big-business customers and 75 employees. “It’s still amazing to me,” says Pauker.

“No matter how much you think you have it figured out, there’s always a new challenge. But at the end of the day, that’s what makes it interesting.”

Both entrepreneurs while being co-founders of the company do not directly manage it. They focus instead on product development. They have understood the concept of “mastermind groups”.

Basically  Kacker and Pauker know their respective strengths and they don’t pretend to be what they are not. They have therefore surrounded themselves with smart Chief executive and financial officers, giving them time to focus on what they do best.