Venkat Venkataramani has worked with some of the biggest and fastest-growing tech companies in the world. Instead of just collecting an easy paycheck he decided to take on the challenge of doing something even bigger and more impactful for other businesses. His company, Rockset, has been successful in raising more than $60 million in funding from top-tier investors like Sequoia Capital and Greylock.

In this episode, you will learn:

* How you may want to use Rockset
* Choosing your investors wisely
* The efficiencies of choosing long term thinking investors

Alejandro Cremades · EP 306 Venkat Venkataramani On Raising Over $60 Million For Real-Time Analytics At Cloud Scale
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About Venkat Venkataramani:
Venkat Venkataramani is co-founder and CEO of the real-time indexing database in the cloud company Rockset, which partnered with Sequoia in its seed stage, and he was previously an engineering director at Facebook. When he is not busy with Rockset, you can find him playing cricket with his kids, tending his vegetable garden, and working his way through every recipe in Peter Reinhart's cook books.

Venkat Venkataramani was previously an Engineering Director in the Facebook infrastructure team responsible for all online data services that stored and served Facebook user data. Collectively, these systems worked across 5 geographies and and served more than 5 billion queries a second. Prior to Facebook, Venkat worked on the Oracle Database.
Connect with Venkat Venkataramani:

* Crunchbase
* LinkedIn
* Twitter
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