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I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.

Hello, everyone.

My guest today is Mark Jeannie.

He's the co-founder and CEO of a company called Cloud Elements, and he's a

recognized and as a leading visionary for unifying the world's APIs by defining the first

API integration platform. This revolution of API integration is the next frontier in API

management as developers address the challenge of consuming millions of disparate, private, and public APIs.

Mark, are you ready to take us to the top?

Yeah, let's do it, Nathan.

So how should we think about cloud elements?

Is this like an enterprise version of Zapier or kind of like segment?

What world do you guys play in?

Yeah, it's a API-based version of what had traditionally been integration platforms called

Enterprise Service buses. So things like Mulesoft and TIBCO and Boomy have traditionally

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