Making a Product Great by Building a Community
Today we’re going to talk to Matei Zaharia. As of this March, he’ll be an Assistant Professor at MIT. He’s currently the CTO at a startup company called DataBricks that uses a rapidly growing piece of software (Spark) he created in the area of “big data analytics.” Spark is powerful and important, but runs behind the scenes for technology entrepreneurs and companies. It doesn’t have the sexiness like a new phone or wearable device that makes the world want to get one immediately. So how did he get it to take off?