016: The SOLO but YOLO move from India to Start a Data Company - Amandeep Khurana

Entrepreneur Stories 4⃣ Inspiration

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🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Amandeep Khurana is CEO & Co-Founder of Cerebro Data. His company works with cloud native data management and governance software for enterprises. Before this he was the Principal Solutions Architect at Cloudera Inc, where he worked with Cloudera’s customers to help them with their adoption and usage of the Hadoop ecosystem. Amandeep has been been involved in the big data ecosystem since 2009 and worked at AWS prior to Cloudera. Amandeep has also co-authored HBase In Action, a book on developing applications on the popular NoSQL datastore, HBase. *** For Show Notes, Key Points, Contact Info, & Resources Mentioned on this episode visit here: Amandeep Khurana Interview. ***

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0:00.0	I definitely found myself spending time on things that looked to be used to, but may not
0:20.4	have been.
0:21.4	I want to take a shot at something that's big enough.
0:25.6	Now I'm just basically executing on it.
0:27.6	How it works?
0:31.0	You need to grow or you should.
0:34.6	Thank you for having me.
0:46.3	I'm one of the founders of an enterprise data management product company.
0:50.8	We are building a sales service data access products for analysts that want access to data
0:57.4	in order to do analytics and they typically work in larger organizations.
1:02.3	So that we are a product company.
1:03.8	We are about a year, a little over a year old, venture backed and two of us started the
1:08.3	company.
1:09.3	What, like I mentioned that our target customer base, large enterprises, we are targeting
1:15.0	the Fortune 500.
1:16.0	I am the CEO of the company.
1:17.5	I started the company with a good turn of mind, he is the CEO and there are all things
1:21.6	product engineering and everything outside of product engineering is my responsibility.
1:26.7	Everything from fundraising to sales to marketing to recruiting and so forth and pack
1:32.4	both of us spend a lot of time on recruiting.
1:34.6	That's what the breakup looks like.
1:38.3	How did you get into it and how, just from my point of view, because I don't have much
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