The AWS Startup Podcast

Finding a safe haven for people fleeing some of the most chaotic and dangerous parts of the glove is a unique problem for a startup to tackle, and yet ReDI School faces some of the same issues of scale, speed, and purpose as any other startup.

A Place for Refugees to Find a Home (and a Job) in Tech 

The Simplest, Yet Most Powerful Trait: Trust

Finding a safe haven for people fleeing some of the most chaotic and dangerous parts of the glove is a unique problem for a startup to tackle, and yet ReDI Scho

Data practically runs through the veins of Steven Mih, CEO of opensource data orchestration startup Alluxio. He's a serial startup CEO with more than two decades in the distributed data world. At Alluxio, Mih was brought in as CEO to take an opensource project that came out of U.C. Berkeley’s AMP lab, and help scale the software and the startup around the world. The best way Mih has found to work with his team to do just that, involves trust, over-communication, and a little email hack that reminds him to follow-up on just about everything in his busy life. 

Simon Thorpe from U.K.-based Delta2020 uses a basic model when vetting potential investments and it boils down to four things: the right team, the right technology, intellectual property that is defensible, and a very big market.