Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership
Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership
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In-depth, one-on-one conversations with founders, CEOs, and makers. The journey, lessons learned, and the struggles. Let’s do this! Host Adam Stacoviak dives deep into the trials, tribulations, successes, and failures of industry leading entrepreneurs, leaders, innovators, and visionaries.

Builder journey to streaming data platform

April 20, 2023 1:10:17 67.7 MB Downloads: 0

This week Adam is joined by Alex Gallego, Founder & CEO at Redpanda Data, to share his builder journey to create the Redpanda streaming data platform.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) - On Founders Talk...
(00:51) - Start the show!
(02:46) - Graduating young
(07:17) - Now you're an engineer
(11:43) - Playing with hardware to learn
(15:50) - Three poor kids from Brooklyn
(18:44) - On being a first-generation immigrant
(23:55) - Sponsor: Sentry
(26:14) - Digging into Redpanda
(33:32) - Building for NVMe
(39:26) - Missing on Cloud
(44:02) - The lack of latency
(46:07) - The importantacnce of sovereignty
(48:05) - Sponsor: Square
(51:00) - Infrastructure choices
(53:23) - The state of Redpanda Cloud
(56:16) - Choosing the BSL license
(1:02:25) - Going public is next
(1:04:27) - Hack the Planet scholarship
(1:08:55) - Up next on Founders Talk