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Mar 2020
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The Simplest, Yet Most Powerful Trait: T...

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Data practically runs through the veins of Steven Mih, CEO of opensource data orchestration startup Alluxio. He's a serial startup CEO with more than two decades in the distributed data world. At Alluxio, Mih was brought in as CEO to take an opensource project that came out of U.C. Berkeley’s AMP lab, and help scale the software and the startup around the wo ... Show More
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