Matei Zaharia

“The pitch was that Jan Stoica, who was a professor at Berkeley, presented the company. And the slides he made, it was like going to, like, a computer science lecture that you couldn't understand in college... Scott Schenker... called me and said, Ben, I have the best distributed systems guy that we've seen in the last 10 years in academia. His name is Matej Zaharias.”

“Scott Schenker, who was another professor at Berkeley, who I knew, had called me and said, Ben, I have the best distributed systems guy that we've seen in the last 10 years in academia.”