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At least two of them already had that background, though. They weren’t blank slates: “billionaire startup alumni founds second billionaire startup with new coll
by lazyasciiart 4y ago
At least two of them already had that background, though. They weren’t blank slates: “billionaire startup alumni founds second billionaire startup with new colleagues” would be a perfectly accurate title.
> Stoica was an exec at $300 million video streaming startup Conviva, while Shenker had been the first CEO at Nicira, a networking firm sold in 2012 to VMware for about $1.3 billion
- jefftk 4y ago> billionaire startup alumni Only Stoica, Ghodsi, and Zaharia are listed on https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires and I don't think any of them were billionaires before Databricks? Exec at a $300M company or CEO overseeing a $1.3B exit means rich, yes, but not billionaire rich.
- lazyasciiart 4y agoI meant person from a startup worth $1 billion, not person worth a billion.