Mike Olson, Co-Founder of Cloudera
Cloudera is THE leading Big Data analytics company in the market, recently receiving a $740 million investment from Intel. They build enterprise solutions that enable banks, insurance companies, and hospitals to more easily crunch their data.
This talk given by Mike Olson at Stanford is worth watching because the story of Cloudera is hugely different from popular startup stories like that of Facebook. He was not young when he co-founded Cloudera (my guess is mid-forties). He analyzed the business opportunity of an emerging technology he did not develop. He teamed up with three other like-minded entrepreneurs. The company started before the product. The company has an enterprise-focused opensource-based freemium business model. You might have noticed, but none of this is sexy. Which is why we should pay more attention.