Mesosphere
company on 4 shows · 7 statements across 5 episodes · said 30 times in 13 episodes since 2014
the MAD Podcast 17 
the a16z Podcast 12 
BG2 Pod 1 
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2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 12 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Why the Datacenter Needs an Operating System
- a16z Podcast | Datacenter of the Future
- a16z Podcast | Containing the Monolith -- From Microservices to DevOps
- a16z Podcast | A New Lab Rises
- a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
- a16z Podcast | The Consumerization of IT
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2016 1 mention in 1 episode
2015 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
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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…”
Global 2000 buyers require enterprise procurement rather than self-serve SaaS
“And those companies won't be just putting in a credit card and ordering 500,000 dollars worth of a product on our website. These are contracts that go through long negotiation cycles, they go into procurement, and we got this advice in the beginning many times…”
Data volume grows at 40% annually, driving edge computing demand
“So the data is growing at 40% compounded annually, and you just won't be able to just put all of this data into a centralized system.”
Sales execution is as critical as product development for technical founders
“So I came out of engineering, and I never really understood how important sales in a company is. I guess my naive way of going into starting a company in enterprise sales was that if you build a great product, it's going to sell itself. But sales is super impo…”
Groschupf: New computation frameworks should be built on Mesosphere, not YARN
“And if I would have to rewrite kind of the code I wrote in 2006, I would not necessarily write it on Yarn. I would maybe write a whole new computation framework on Mesosphere.”
Ibrahim: Container technology will replace VMware and traditional virtual machines
“In my area in particular containers are now the new thing. So you see companies like Mesosphere and Docker and CoreOS coming up and really Trying to supplement, but truly the, what they're trying to do is completely replace very, very large companies like VMwa…”