Kannan Muthukkaruppan of YugabyteDB

Topics include Kannan’s background & motivation to start Yugabyte (2:40), his experiences at Facebook with database technology (4:00), how he and leadership team have retained some of the culture from his previous companies (7:00), how entrepreneurs should think about and approach challenges when building their businesses (12:05), what it’s like to develop open source software as a startup and build a profitable business (15:05), and the thought process around bringing in a professional CEO to run the organization (18:01).