Episode 37 - Investing into the Next Wave of Awesome with Lenny Pruss
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English - October 07, 2020 14:09 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsTechnology k8s cncf danpop devops kubecon dan papandrea agiledevelopment developer kubernetes software Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode we talk with Lenny Pruss from Amplify partners about the Venture Capital process, Amplify, some of the portfolio companies he's worked with such as Datadog, Hashi, Lighstep and many others. Lenny is brilliant and understands the cloud native space and shares his knowledge about how he picks portfolio companies and some amazing advice for founders.
Lenny's bio: Lenny Pruss is a General Partner at Amplify Partners. He has more than eight years of experience working alongside and on behalf of entrepreneurs as an advisor, mentor, and investor. Lenny works with technical founders solving complex problems across systems and infrastructure, developer tools, cybersecurity, and emerging enterprise technologies.Prior to joining Amplify Partners, he was a Principal with Redpoint Ventures where he led the firm’s investments in Hashicorp and LightStep. Lenny began his career with RRE Ventures in New York where he shaped the firm’s enterprise investment thesis and backed companies including Datadog and WhipTail Technologies (acquired by Cisco). He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a founding partner of Rock Venture Partners, a student-led seed investment fund, and a B.S. from UC Berkeley.
Episode Links
Amplify Partners site: https://amplifypartners.com/
Lenny's Blog: https://medium.com/lenny-for-your-thoughts
Timeline/Topic
0:00 - Intro
00:38 - Lenny's Path/Journey
05:03 - Lenny discusses Amplify and its unique position
09:45 - How Amplify and Lenny evaluates technology
18:25 - Lenny Talks some of the companies in Amplify Partners portfolio (Tilt.dev)
22:42 - Prisma
24:30 - Fishtown Analytics, Replicated, Gremlin
30:00 - Lenny for your thoughts (Lenny's Blog)
30:50 - What makes this cloud native community unique?
34:05 - What work is Lenny most proud of?
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