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
Jan 2020
Inside Angel Investing: Should You Join an Accelerator?
Eamonn Carey from TechStars London walks us through the reasons you might want to apply to an accelerator. Beyond the network, beyond the technical and business help, Carey says, there is the forcing function of just getting an MVP ready for demo day.
45m 50s
Mar 2023
Spotify’s Daniel Ek — How to build trust fast
Normally, trust = consistency + time. But when you're scaling fast, you have to find shortcuts to trust, with your partners and your users. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek knows a thing or two about this. When he founded Spotify, he did what few disruptors ever do: He worked with the indus ... Show More
37m 50s
Sep 2018
How to build trust fast, w/Spotify's Daniel Ek
Normally, trust = consistency + time. But when you're scaling fast, you have to find shortcuts to trust, with your partners and your users. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek knows a thing or two about this. When he founded Spotify, he did what few disruptors ever do: He worked with the indus ... Show More
37m 50s
Jan 2022
Ion Stoica — Spark, Ray, and Enterprise Open Source
Ion Stoica is co-creator of the distributed computing frameworks Spark and Ray, and co-founder and Executive Chairman of Databricks and Anyscale. He is also a Professor of computer science at UC Berkeley and Principal Investigator of RISELab, a five-year research lab that develop ... Show More
53m 42s
Sep 2023
Episode 4: Unfolding MedTech & HealthTech in an era of rapid technology disruptions
Rahul Guha, BCG alumnus and Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Thyrocare Technologies Ltd, shares the importance of mentoring and building trust as crucial factors for organizations to succeed today. He states that both key leadership lessons were picked up from his d ... Show More
23 m
Jun 2025
The Most Strategic Networking Strategy Ever?
In a high-tech world, old-school relationships still win. So take a cue from Hollywood: Film producer and financier Matthew Helderman, cofounder and CEO of BondIt Media Capital and Buffalo8, shares how his team turned the classic business lunch into a repeatable growth strategy - ... Show More
32m 27s
Dec 2023
E31 - Distributed Systems at Shopify with Ahmad Alhour
Staff software engineer Ahmad joined me to share insights from designing complex systems at Shopify. We discussed distributed systems, managing technology landscapes, testing strategies, flexible architectures, leadership skills, understanding roles, and optimizing teams. Key tak ... Show More
1h 9m
Feb 2024
PagerDuty’s CTO on the Crux of IT Operations
One of the critical components of the software value chain is resiliency, or how quickly a system can recover with the fewest people affected or noticing, says PagerDuty Chief Technology Officer Tim Armandpour. He joins Sunil Rajgopal, Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior software ana ... Show More
44m 30s
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