Entrepreneur: Jeff Hammerbacher, 27
Funding:
$11 million from Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, and angel investors
that include Gideon Yu and Caterina Fake
A friend of Facebook
founder Mark Zuckerberg's at Harvard, Jeff Hammerbacher was recruited
away from Bear Stearns to assemble a Facebook team to analyze data about
users' behavior on the site. To do that, he used the open-source cloud
computing software called Hadoop. Now Hammerbacher is a co-founder,
vice-president of products, and chief scientist at Cloudera, which sells
technical consulting and software tools to help companies use Hadoop to
analyze large amounts of data. Cloudera
co-founder Christophe Bisciglia was one of Bloomberg
BusinessWeek's Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs of 2009. Cloudera's
customers include Netflix,
Samsung,
ComScore,
and LinkedIn.
Toughest
decision: Changing Cloudera's business model to make it into a
software vendor. "Initially [our model] was 'ship your data to us and
let us manage it,' " Hammerbacher says. "It made a lot more sense to
make the pivot and become a software vendor."
To read the full, original article click on this link: Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2010: Cloudera - BusinessWeek
Author: Bloomberg BusinessWeek
