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How to Change the World (Ion Stoica, Executive Chairman & Former CEO of Databricks; & Co-Founder of Conviva)

B2BaCEO (with Ashu Garg)

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Building Impactful Companies: A Journey from Video Distribution to Big Data Processing

The chapter highlights Jan Stoika's motivation behind founding companies like ConViva and Databricks, focusing on the impact they aimed to make on the world. It explores the early days of ConViva improving video distribution with peer-to-peer technology and the development of systems like Mesos and Spark at Databricks for efficient data processing and analytics.

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