Ion Stoica Interview
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Episode 32: Interview with Ion Stoica, Professor at University of California, Berkeley. Creator, leader, and founder of Apache Spark, Ray, Apache Mesos. Founder of Databricks, Anyscale, and Conviva. ACM Fellow, SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award. Immigrant from Romania in 1994.
Fejezetek
1. Ion Stoica Interview (00:00:00)
2. Act 0 – Introduction to and Biography of Ion Stoica (00:03:08)
3. Act 1 – Early Memories of childhood, and schooling, 1970s and 80s (00:05:25)
4. He trained as... An Artist! (00:06:06)
5. Exams, Exams, Exams (00:08:42)
6. Army vs. College (00:11:31)
7. Deciding between Physics vs. Computer Science (00:14:46)
8. Act 2 – Communism, Ceacescu, and effect on Ion’s upbringing and family, 1970s and 80s (00:17:44)
9. How Ion’s mother, a geologist, was kicked out from college by Communist Party (00:22:12)
10. When the Communist party tried to recruit Ion. And "The Folder" they maintained on him (00:23:12)
11. When Communism started to fall apart in Romania, and the Revolution, 1989 (00:25:12)
12. Act 3 – First Encounters with Technology, 1970s and 80s (00:29:13)
13. Act 4 – Centralized Job Assignment, and Working after MS in Bucharest, 1989 (00:33:24)
14. Act 5 – Immigrating to the US, and moving from Old Dominion to CMU, 1994 (00:37:06)
15. Act 6 – Next steps after PhD in 2000 (00:43:12)
16. Ion’s philosophy of why borders don’t matter (00:43:55)
17. Has the tech industry in Romania grown since 2000? (00:46:45)
18. Act 7 – His entrepreneurial philosophy, 2000-Present (00:48:19)
19. The secret of Ion Stoica’s Entrepreneurial Spirit. His first entrepreneurial venture – Conviva (00:48:20)
20. A Story of Ion’s first experiences at Conviva, two technical (provisioning) problems, and how they motivated Ion’s next research on Spark and Mesos (00:50:01)
21. How Databricks almost *didn't* become a company (00:54:06)
22. Act 8 - Retrospective and Perspective (00:56:17)
23. Handling Failures and Rejections (00:56:18)
24. Handling The Fear of Being Wrong (00:58:57)
25. Alternate Realities (01:00:08)
26. Teachers, Mentors, and Role Models (01:04:20)
27. Thank you, and Ending (01:07:56)
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