Thought Leaders in Big Data: Adam Wray, CEO of Basho (Part 5)

Adam Wray: We’re now moving towards distributed data platforms. This is where clients in the enterprise are going to say, “I want to use many models, but I don’t want to be responsible for figuring out how to keep all that available. I just want the data to be accessible so I can build my

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Adam Wray, CEO of Basho (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How does all this fit in the competitive landscape? Can you help me build an ecosystem map of where you sit? Adam Wray: I’ll take a high-level map and break it down. It starts with the first two trends. The first trend in unstructured data was Hadoop. That trend was driven by the

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Is Entrepreneurship All About The Exit?

If you spend time in the Silicon Valley culture, and that culture, today, is being exported very aggressively around the world, you would be easily convinced that entrepreneurship means financing and exit. I have never believed in this point of view. At a recent roundtable, I invited Christian Blume, CEO of Cleverbridge, an online payments

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Bootstrapping a Virtual Company to Scale: Taso Du Val, CEO of Toptal (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Have you bootstrapped your company all the way or have you raised money along the way? Taso Du Val: We raised a really small round for approximately $1.4 million with some really great individuals. It was a seed round, so it was not a priced round. We still consider ourselves a bootstrapped startup. Hence,

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Adam Wray, CEO of Basho (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Talk to me a bit about the computer architecture side of what you do. Adam Wray: Riak Core is focused on distributed systems. All of our algorithms are trying to make sure that we have places in multiple locations so that when you have a knottage within the Internet, which is a common thing,

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Bootstrapping a Virtual Company to Scale: Taso Du Val, CEO of Toptal (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: I’ll just benchmark it by saying oDesk, for instance, charges 10% of the contract value. Tell me what the additional value is that you’re adding to the process. Taso Du Val: We screen all of the individuals for you. Not only for our network but also for your specific request. There are many

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