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AppDynamics founder Jyoti Bansal merges startups Harness, Traceable newsthirst.
Jyoti Bansal, co-founder and CEO of startup Harness. Harness Jyoti Bansal knows about weird acquisitions. Eight years ago, his software company, AppDynamics, was on the doorstep of a blockbuster initial public offering. A day before the offering, Cisco swooped in and bought the company for $3.7 billion. Now Bansal is at the center of an…