The Capital Stack Piet Jan de Bruin former CEO of Tuft & Needle and now Founder of IOMETE on Big Data, Cloud Infrastructure, and the Current Data Technology Stack.
In this episode of the Capital Stack, David talks to the man with perhaps the sexiests accent in the Valley - Piet Jan de Bruin - about the modern data stack!
Piet is the co-founder & COO of IOMETE, a YC-backed early-stage startup in the data cloud space. IOMETE is a fully-managed data lakehouse platform that enables organizations to become data-driven in an easy and cost-effective manner. (http://www.iomete.com)
From 2016 to 2020 Piet was CEO of DTC startup Tuft & Needle (www.tn.com) that he and his team bootstrapped to $200m in revenue (exit late 2018).
Piet earned a m.sc. degree in Business Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
When he's not building IOMETE, Piet likes to spend time on the family farm in central Brazil, reading and practicing jiu jitsu.
Favorite Quote - Theodore Rosevelt:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."