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Founders must quickly replace misaligned early advisors, investors, and 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 …”
Aster Data was among the first companies to position around "Big 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.”
The term "Big Data" has lost its strategic marketing effectiveness
“We use Big Data a lot less because Big Data has lost a lot of the benefit it had for us back in 2009.”
Aster Data needed a major partner to fulfill its product vision
“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.”
MySpace was a major early customer for Aster Data
“Right media never became our customer. And that's a different story, but MySpace did become a very big customer of ours.”
Tasso Argyros: Aster Data began developing its architecture in 2005
“We were thinking about this problem back in 2005, right? So that was pre-Hadoop”