Ten years ago my good friend Scott Yara and I had a dinner in LA where I agreed to join him on his early vision of a start-up that we didn’t even have name or solid product vision for. We eventually came up Metapa which stood for Media To All Places and our product vision was a data platform for digital media. We raised about 15MM from investors. Ed Sims lead our first round and hung in there for all ten years. After many rounds and big product changes Metapa actually successfully changed into a smarter and better idea called Greenplum. And now after ten long years of amazing hard work Scott and team created a really intelligent software product that IT groups find remarkably helpful and EMC agrees by stepping up and acquiring this rising star – Greenplum.
I have been impressed and admire Scott’s ability to start and run Metapa and Greenplum through the dark days of 2001 and 2008. I have learned really important founder lessons from working with Scott: never give up and great people are hard to find. It was an honor to be a co-founding member of the Metapa team. Bravo Greenplum.
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Big congratulations to Scott and Greenplum. You deserve recognition for all those years of work.