Hadoop World: Battery Ventures EIR Todd P.

November 16, 2011

Todd Papaioannou has been in Big Data for a while.  He built the original engineering team at Greenplum, worked at Teradata for 5 years and mostly recently, before joining Battery Ventures as an  Entrepreneur in Residence, served as Yahoo’s Chief Cloud architect.

I grabbed some time with Mr. P to learn what it means to be an EIR and what he’s seeing in the industry from his vantage point.

Some of the ground Todd covers

  • Todd’s background
  • (0:45) What is an Entrepreneur in Residence and how did Todd become one
  • (2:45) What trends is he seeing in the space and how does he feel the market’s evolving
  • (4:00) What are his big take aways from this year’s Hadoop World

But wait, there’s more!

Stay tuned for more interviews from last week’s Hadoop world.  On tap are:

  • John Gray of Facebook
  • Erik Swan of Splunk
  • Nosh Petigara of 10gen/MongoDB

Extra-credit reading

Pau for now…

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Hadoop World: Accel’s $100M Big Data fund

November 9, 2011

Yesterday Hadoop World kicked off here in New York city.  As part of the opening keynotes, Ping Li of Accel Partners got on stage and announced that they are opening a $100 million dollar fund focusing on big data.  If you’re not familiar with Accel, they are the venture capital firm that have invested in such hot companies as Facebook, Cloudera, Couchbase, Groupon and Fusion IO.

I grabbed some time with Ping at the end of the sessions yesterday to learn more about their fund:

Some of the ground Ping covers:

  • What areas within the data world the fund will focus on.
  • Who are some of the current players within their portfolio that fall into the big data space.
  • What trends Ping’s seeing within the field of Big Data.
  • How to engage with Accel and why it would make sense to work with them.

Extra-credit reading:

Pau for now…

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