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Episode 427 | Venkat Venkataramani - Valuing People
2019-06-10
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Venkat Venkataramani talks with Dave Rael about leadership, humility, contribution, commitment to doing the right things, and valuing people over software and data
Venkat Venkataramani is CEO and co-founder of Rockset. He 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.
Chapters:
0:16 - Dave introduces the show and Venkat Venkataramani3:40 - Venkat's transition from being an individual contributor to a manager8:04 - Venkat on founding a business and the nature of Rockset10:49 - Degrees of freedom, structure, constraints, databases, and storage17:52 - The relative impact possible in different parts of an organization and doing what needs to be done23:59 - Venkat's story of failure - loss of a database, along with all backups33:40 - Venkat's book recommendation35:46 - The current state of Rockset37:00 - Building teams and building a culture42:46 - Venkat's top 3 tips for delivering more value45:55 - Keeping up with Venkat
Resources:
Rockset
The Rockset Blog
Bilbo Baggins
Venkat's book recommendation:
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North
Venkat's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
Understand to whom you are delivering value
Default to action
Optimize for iteration
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