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EP #153 - Ross Mason: Ringing The Bell At The NY Stock Exchange

May 5, 2021

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Is There Anything You've Learned From Your Dad?

How to Find Your Passion

How Did the Mule Project Come About?

Mule, What's the Short Version of Mule?

The Right Place to Start a Project or a Company

How Did You End Up With the Lassien?

Is Open Source Really a Good Idea?

Is Open Source a Great Starting Point?

Open Source - What's the Difference Between Open Source and Open Source?

Why Is the Timing Right?

Build Your Own Market

How Do You Attract People to Your Events?

Do You Know Where the Market Is Going?

How to Build Software Remotely

Having the Right People in San Francisco

How Did You Experience the Differences Between the Office and the Office in Other Countries?

Open Source Distribution

Hiring Yourself Out of a Chop

You Don't Need Absolute Control Over Things to Control Things

What Did He Actually Ask These People?

How Did You Lose Your Roll Sito?

01:02:35 • 4min

The Depression Parties Popbe

01:06:32 • 2min

How Do You Get Out of Depression?

01:08:08 • 2min

How Do You Feel When You Go Public?

01:10:18 • 3min

Is Going Public a Good Idea?

01:13:32 • 3min

Against Setting the Bar Higher, I Was Exactly

01:16:13 • 3min

Is the I Po Process for Founders and Companies a Good Idea?

01:19:20 • 2min

What Happened After the IPO?

01:21:20 • 4min

Application Networks

01:25:02 • 4min

01:29:07 • 2min

Is It the Money Part of the Deal?

01:31:16 • 2min

A New Beginning, Not Easy

01:33:16 • 2min

How Do You Become a Successful Investor?

01:34:57 • 2min

Can You Put the Bar Even Higher?

01:36:38 • 3min

How to Make Founders More Successful With Less Stress

01:40:02 • 4min

Do You Have a Team That Runs the Workshops?

01:43:47 • 2min

Making the Foundling Company Journey Less Stressful

01:45:27 • 2min

Bap, a Con Umorap, Something New?

01:47:20 • 4min

Is There Any Blocks Podcasts That You Can Recommend?

01:51:21 • 4min

01:55:03 • 2min

Are You Happier in Two Thousand Seventy or Are You Happy Now?

01:57:00 • 2min

The Moras Was Pne Community Grows

01:59:05 • 35sec

Timestamps:

1:06 - Being obsessed with running businesses

6:28 - Creating the mulesoft open source project

12:15 - Should you solve your own problem?

21:00 - Open sourcing software

1:01:30 - Getting prospective clients to follow through

1:04:08 - Letting go of your CTO position

1:07:51 - Falling into a depression

1:11:14 - Ringing the bell at the NY stock exchange

1:35:10 - Adapting to a slower paced life

About Ross Mason

Ross Mason is the founder of MuleSoft Inc. and Dig Ventures. He is also a Board Member at Stackin' and Syncari.

Ross has always had an entrepreneurial spirit, and jokes that at the ripe age of seven, he was already running his own bootleg Lego club! His parents were business owners, and taught Ross two important lessons for his future projects: you should never lower your bar, and working hard isn't necessarily a bad thing if you enjoy what you do.

In 1997, Ross graduated in Computer Science from the University of the West of England and started his career in corporate work. However, he knew he wanted to build his own path, and open source software was his prime choice, since it gives you widespread distribution and insight about potential product/market fit. That’s exactly how The Mule Project was born. The platform started out as a SourceForge project in April 2003, and its aim was to make programmers’ lives simpler by allowing them to easily enable the sending of data between their SaaS (software as a service), on-premise software and legacy systems platforms which was previously hard and tedious to do.

This philosophy of avoiding “donkey work” became a guiding star for his endeavors. Born in 2006, MuleSource, later MuleSoft, got the timing just right: many open source companies were becoming commercial, and investors were starting to realize it’s actually a viable distribution model. Ross had a strong drive for building the next game changer in a fragmented market. Though integration had taken a big hit after the rise of web services, MuleSoft kept the ball rolling by uniting many different approaches in one platform, with all the proper testing, monitoring, debugging and graphical environment.

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