Aster Data

“Aster was one of the first companies that you, that we used it as our major positioning statement, and I do believe we had the first big data event. Although I may be wrong, but nobody has, ah, nobody has, ah, told me otherwise so far.”

“Right media never became our customer. And that's a different story, but MySpace did become a very big customer of ours.”

“We were thinking about this problem back in 2005, right? So that was pre-Hadoop”

“We use Big Data a lot less because Big Data has lost a lot of the benefit it had for us back in 2009.”

“We sold the company to Teradata in 2011, and then I ran the company as a division with my co-founder, ah, for a couple of years.”

“And we realized that the only way to realize what the product and the company, ah, the vision, what it could offer was to align with the major player.”

“When big data happened in 2010, we had maybe, you know, about a hundred employees”

“You know, in, back then we didn't think about it, but in retrospect, that first asset of everything is so critical, so that if it's not aligned with your vision, it's not aligned with the company's vision where you want to go, you really need to make a change …”