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slash disclosures. Welcome to the A16Z podcast. I'm Michael Copeland, and we are here today with Peter Levine, general partner here at Andrewson Horowitz. And on the phone, Paula Long, CEO and founder of Data Gravity. Paula, welcome.

Thank you. Peter, welcome to you too, I guess. Yeah, thank you. Thank you.

So, Paula, you guys have recently come out of stealth mode and I want to dig into sort of,

we want to focus on the future, but I want to get a little bit about the past because I know

you and Peter have talked about the data center and storage in particular for a long time.

So, you know, give us

just a short synopsis of what data gravity does, and then I want to backtrack and talk about

how you guys got to where you are.

Sure. So, first of all, storage is an incredibly conservative technology area. So what you see

is, you know, other places where they're innovating, you know,

10 or 20 years before, storage will catch up, but it's not usually the leader.

But storage is growing at such a rate.

It's going to have to start to take a leadership position in sort of the evolution of how

the technology works.

We first sort of noticed this, you know, as the founder of Equilogic or co-founder of Equilogic

in that, you know, storage hadn't started automating.

Everything was done by hand in kind of an erector set back in 2000, 2001.

But if you thought about it at that point, the network had started to get smarter, you know, not brilliant, but smarter.

Your servers and operating systems were getting smarter and had been since the 90s.

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