Builder journey to streaming data platform

04/20/23 • 70 min

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

This week Adam is joined by Alex Gallego, Founder & CEO at Redpanda Data, to share his builder journey to create the Redpanda streaming data platform.

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Redpanda

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This week Adam is joined by Alex Gallego, Founder & CEO at Redpanda Data, to share his builder journey to create the Redpanda streaming data platform.

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Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at developer.squareup.com to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com
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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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Redpanda

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Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership - Builder journey to streaming data platform

Transcript

Transcript for Founders Talk #95 Adam Stacoviak:

One interesting fact about your journey is you're an immigrant, and you've got this sort of like origin story of building, and you're a builder... Let's begin there, because I think that surfaces a lot of the things you've done at Redpanda - that's where you're at now - and what you've done to be a founder and a CEO, and to be on this show, and to do all these fun things... But let's go back, I suppose, and talk about your builder