SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

When I do a quick mental query of headcount across our entire portfolio of ~30 companies, I think at least 50% and maybe as much as 60% of the entire headcount of our portfolio is in either product or engineering. We'll be your hosts for a three-part series about the use of MongoDB here at Etsy. The Curation Team. Well, half of it.

Fractional CTO 248

Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Last night at the NY Tech Meetup, John Britton of our portfolio company Twilio showed how it is done. Even so, it’s difficult (and perhaps impossible) to operate a small business or startup and not negotiate agreements with employees, vendors, customers, and others. If you do a lot of pitches, spend the six minutes to watch this.

Startup 191

Startup CTO Hire Cofounder Venture Capital 191

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 23, 2007

Other storage of media: GreenLightJobs - store media / portfolio elements, LoanToolBox - content elements/videos. This would seem to be a good case for us to separate off matching and making that a more scalable operation on EC2. A lot of the examples that Amazon used were media related.

Web 150

Web EC2 IP Distribution 150