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Nathan Latka

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4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

With over 20 years growing and leading technology companies, Frank Bien built his career on nurturing strong corporate culture and highly efficient teams.. Prior to Looker, Frank was SVP of Strategy for storage vendor Virsto (acquired by VMware) and VP of Strategic Alliances at big-data pioneer Greenplum, leading their acquisition by EMC (now Pivotal). He led Product Marketing and Strategy at early scale-out data warehousing company Sensage and was VP of Solution Sales at Vignette/OpenText. Earlier in his career he held executive roles at Dell and the Federal Reserve.

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0:00.0	This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got
0:06.9	filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other
0:16.1	insider information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million.
0:23.6	I had no money when I started the company.
0:25.6	It was a hundred and sixty million dollars which is the size of any IPOs.
0:29.6	We're a bit strapped.
0:30.6	We have like 22,000 customers.
0:33.6	With over five million downloads in a very short amount of time,
0:38.6	major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes.
0:43.6	I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.
0:48.6	Hello, everybody.
0:49.5	My guest today is Frank BN, and with over 20 years experience growing and leading technology companies,
0:55.3	he's built his career on nurturing strong corporate culture and highly efficient teams. Before Looker,
1:00.2	he was SVP of strategy for storage vendor Verstow, which was acquired by VMware, and VP of Strategic
1:05.3	Alliance is a big data pioneer green plum, leading their acquisition by EMC, which is obviously
1:10.3	now called Pivotal.
1:11.3	He led product marketing and strategy at early scale-out data warehousing company, SENSage,
1:15.7	and was VP of solution sales at OpenTex.
1:18.8	Earlier in his career, he had executive roles at Dell and the Federal Reserve.
1:22.6	Frank, are you ready to take us to the top?
1:24.5	Let's go.
1:25.2	All right.
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