Florian Leibert

Co-Founder and General Partner, 468 Capital · 2 appearances on the record.

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Florian Leibert is the co-founder and former CEO of Mesosphere, an enterprise cloud and container orchestration platform. He later co-founded the venture capital firm 468 Capital after previously leading engineering initiatives at Twitter and Airbnb.

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The record, in short

What the tape says about how Florian argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Liebert: Enterprise data centers are undergoing a tectonic shift to Linux

“We're seeing this tectonic shift right now in data centers from Windows over to Linux.”

Florian Leibert Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:34 a16z Podcast | The Consumerization of IT

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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What they said9 Episodes2

Everything Florian Leibert said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Leibert: Traditional software operator roles will disappear over time

“So, I mean, I think the whole operator is going to go away over time, like with cloud, with tools like... Yeah, I think it's going to, I think, like, we're going to go towards a world where a lot of that stuff is autonomous.”

Florian Leibert Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:02 a16z Podcast | Containing the Monolith -- From Microservices to DevOps

Opinion

Leibert: Automated systems make dedicated database administrators obsolete

“But if you have systems where a lot of the recovery of failures is actually built in, and the level of automation is really high, you actually don't need these DBAs anymore sitting around and screwing stuff up.”

Florian Leibert Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:50 a16z Podcast | Containing the Monolith -- From Microservices to DevOps

Opinion

Leibert: Writing Visual Basic is more joyful than writing Go applications

“And frankly, it's more joyful to write Visual Basic than it is to write Go, right? That you actually achieve Business results. I mean, seriously, right? Like, writing a Spark job, you see the output right away, whereas if you write a large Go application, I me…”

Florian Leibert Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:21 a16z Podcast | Containing the Monolith -- From Microservices to DevOps

Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2038

Leibert: Mainframes will remain core enterprise infrastructure for 20 to 30 years

“So I think we're not going to see a rip and replace. I think we're going to see more and more systems built around the old systems. And for some of the core infrastructure, I think even in 20 or 30 years, we'll still have mainframes.”

Florian Leibert Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:34 a16z Podcast | Containing the Monolith -- From Microservices to DevOps

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Liebert: Data centers will move to plug-and-play pooled chip architectures

“We're going to see plug and play Data centers where you can just add chips, remove chips, and they're just added to the pool.”

Florian Leibert Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:17 a16z Podcast | The Consumerization of IT

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Liebert: Compute infrastructure will shift to dynamic job-based pricing

“And I think as we see that with more and more companies evolving, we, we're going to be We're going to be pricing jobs, individual compute jobs, rather than just providing a static pool of resources. I think that's where we're going clearly.”

Florian Leibert Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:17 a16z Podcast | The Consumerization of IT

Assertion Supported

Liebert: Enterprise data centers are undergoing a tectonic shift to Linux

“We're seeing this tectonic shift right now in data centers from Windows over to Linux.”

Florian Leibert Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:34 a16z Podcast | The Consumerization of IT

Insight

Liebert: Open-source companies can monetize by building superior user experience

“And I think where we can provide additional value that we can charge for is in, in making this open source easier to use. And coming from companies like Airbnb and Twitter, where UX is, is really essential, I think we can apply the same to open source, and I t…”

Florian Leibert Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:08 a16z Podcast | The Consumerization of IT

Assertion Supported

Liebert: Google cgroups provided the foundation for Docker containerization

“The roots there are actually, well, the roots lie actually at Google. So, four or five years ago, Google contributed, ah, cgroups to the Linux kernel. And cgroups are the foundation for what is now Docker, right?”

Florian Leibert Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:25 a16z Podcast | The Consumerization of IT

Appearances (2)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| Containing the Monolith -- From Microservices to DevOps	Jan 2, 2019	3m
a16z Podcast \| The Consumerization of IT	Jan 2, 2019	6m

Florian Leibert

The record, in short

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