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:
- - Dave introduces the show and Venkat Venkataramani
- - Venkat's transition from being an individual contributor to a manager
- - Venkat on founding a business and the nature of Rockset
- - Degrees of freedom, structure, constraints, databases, and storage
- - The relative impact possible in different parts of an organization and doing what needs to be done
- - Venkat's story of failure - loss of a database, along with all backups
- - Venkat's book recommendation
- - The current state of Rockset
- - Building teams and building a culture
- - Venkat's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Venkat
Resources:
Venkat's book recommendation:
Venkat's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Understand to whom you are delivering value
- Default to action
- Optimize for iteration