Do you feel pretty good from your contributions to big data? Then you should probably get acquainted with Andy Konwinski, whose biography in the area is the apparallel and which is one of the people of Bigdatawire, which needs to be watched at 2025.
We recently had the pleasure of caught up with Konwinski. Here’s what he had to say:
BIGDATAWIRE: You have been a fascinating career with the success of SO: Compi PhD by UC Berkeley, contributor to Hadop, helping to create Apache Spark on amplab, co -founder and commissioner of the Apache Mesos, co -founder and VP AI/ML in Databricks, Creator of Data + President. What motivates you to constantly create new things?
Andy Konwinski: Motures and Impact. Since it became a parent, this Shas unit has sharpened into something more urgent. I want to use any time, skills and lever effect that I have to help move all humanity forward faster. For me, it begins with the bringing people of Togeher. I realized that in my career he was well dealing with his back to get intelligent, driven people in the same room for something new and big. I call it the “great energy of the group” and it is the movement for which I built.
BDW: You teach a seminar in Berkeley entitled Research to Startups, along with Ali Ghodsi and Ion Stualica, including Berkeley Legends. Why do you think the number of startups has slowed down in recent years? Has technological innovation slowed or is there anything else in the game?
AK: Believe it or not, business is not a direct way for top research workers. I think it should be. We started research at the startup to help change it. The aim of the seminar is simple: Give academic scientists tools, examples, trust and connection to turn their work into society. We had a rotating set of instructors and some incredible guest speakers. This idea – that scientists should add things – was in my career of lines. The discovery is important, but deployment is where there is a real impact. I also worked with laboratory across top schools and I am convinced: people who understand this technology can achieve the greatest results.
BDW: You are planning to talk to UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science and Society Shalgraduate Obřeads 22 May. Would you like to give us a preview?
AK: I really look at it. When I finished my doctorate in Berkeley, I went to the Greek theater, so it feels personally. The preparation of my speech made me rebuild – we build companies, become a parent and what really drives me. I am a scientist at the core. And I believe scientists, perhaps especially computer scientists, have a special role in what comes next. My goal is to share some of your own ways and more importantly, invite these new graduates (and families that encourage them) to see themselves as part of something bigger. Our field has the potential to move all humanity faster and I want to feel weight and excitement.
BDW: In 2024 you co -found Laude Ventures. Can you tell us about the company? What are the companies you are looking for in?
AK: We are going soon during the Discovery/Unterry phase, breakthroughs that we think can become billions of dollar companies. We only work with deeply technical founders, mostly research -based. This is my own background and my co -founders share this DNA. Laude is unique in that we are really technologists who invest in technologists. We are deeply connected to the academic community, with some of the best computer scientists on the planet, because our LPS – 1 out of 3 has already established $ B+. In December, we announced our debut fund, which was $ 150 million, and since then we have fun. Our investments mostly cover deeply technical infrastructure and applications, but we look at everything that is rooted in research or built by a stellar technical team.
BDW: What can you tell us about yourself outside the professional sphere – unique hobbies, favorite places, etc.? Is there anything for you that your colleagues could be surprised?
I love to be outdoors even though I’m a little out of practice. Recently I was backing 28 ml section of the Pacific Crest Trail trail with several friends, rolled the ankle in the middle and I had to limp the last 5 miles out. Fortunately, one of them had better first aid skills than me. It was exactly comfortable – but frankly, I still loved every minute when I was there. How deep as the breakthroughs of AI have been over the last few years, nothing compares to how hiking around the mountains does not feel me.
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