The Ledger

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Meroxa's workforce is 60% Black/Brown, 40% women, and 90% underrepresented executives
“Right now we're, 60% black and brown. 40% women. Our executive staff is 90% underrepresented. We got one white guy out of 10 people.”
DeVaris Brown Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 18:56 Fireside Chat: DeVaris Brown (Founder & CEO, Meroxa) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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Brown: Data tooling market consists mostly of batch point solutions
“The tooling landscape looks like a bunch of point solutions that run in batch and not in real time.”
DeVaris Brown Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 1:01 Fireside Chat: DeVaris Brown (Founder & CEO, Meroxa) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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DeVaris Brown: Meroxa will evolve into a real-time application ecosystem
“Once, you know, real-time data is table stakes and everybody's able to use it at a fashion, then we evolve from just a real-time data platform as a service to now we can be a real-time application ecosystem.”
DeVaris Brown Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 17:54 Fireside Chat: DeVaris Brown (Founder & CEO, Meroxa) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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All but four of Meroxa's 27 employees came from Brown's direct network
“We got 27 amazing people on staff. I think all but four of those people came from my direct network.”
DeVaris Brown Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 20:05 Fireside Chat: DeVaris Brown (Founder & CEO, Meroxa) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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/dev/color has 1,100 Black engineers; Black PMs has 400-500 members
“DevColor has 1100 Black engineers of all skill levels. Black PMs is, I think, like, 405 hundred product managers that are out there.”
DeVaris Brown Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 21:50 Fireside Chat: DeVaris Brown (Founder & CEO, Meroxa) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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