I enjoy helping other builders on product, go-to-market and community. The companies I’ve advised have created nearly $2 billion in value in the past 10 years.Current and past advisees: Arive, Anaconda, Bigstream, Eidolon, H2O.ai, Hive Data I & II, Omegapoint, Orca, SkipLabs, Torvalds and Y Combinator (Continuity).Free advice:Building platform businesses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ArmKDwedloMaking and scaling successful software products: https://productsthatcount.com/temporal-technologies-fmr-coo-on-lessons-from-scaling-multiple-product-businesses/Building product teams: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/navigating-product-leadership-with-charles-zedlewski/id1597770793?i=1000632598885

I’m an occasional angel investor, primarily in software platforms for AI, data and developers as well as systems for autonomy. Investments include Airbyte, Baseten, Corvus Robotics, HuggingFace, LanceDB, Resourcely, Streamsets (acquired for $550M) and Vectara.

Temporal leads the market for durable execution systems, the first significant new backend developer platform since the application server. Developer-first, community-led, open source cloud consumption business.I joined Temporal when it was 20 months old before we'd launched a commercial product. I built and led the business aspects of Temporal that complemented the technical vision of the founders Max & Samar. This included creating the category, value proposition and community programs, shaping & launching the MVP of the commercial product, establishing (defining, doing, hiring, and developing leaders for) all Temporal’s business functions and forming the leadership team and the company operating cadence. Grew developers, users, customers and ARR between 25X and 100X. Today Temporal has a crack product and business team to complement the company's exceptional engineering.$75 million => $1.6 billion in value (so far).

Working with portfolio CEO's to develop vertical market applied AI businesses.

A post-Cloudera break followed by a crash course in pandemic parenting.

Cloudera created and led the category for Hadoop, distributions and several parts of today’s modern-day architecture for analytics. Also the first successful distributed systems business. I joined Cloudera when it was 18 months old.$0 - $780M in ARR$30 million => $5 billion in valueI led the product team and 3 business units focused on growing the data warehousing, ML/AI and PaaS businesses for Cloudera. The combined businesses met or exceeded their plan for 2 consecutive years growing at a higher growth rate than the base business.

I led the product function at Cloudera since before there were products. I led the building and sometimes buying of all of Cloudera's open source and revenue generating products: distributed data platforms, developer & ops tools, governance frameworks, platform services, web services & more.I got to be a part of a very special product & engineering team that set the pace of innovation for the industry for several years and shipped several new technologies that are today's industry standards. Teammates have gone on to found more than 20 companies and/or become product and technical leaders at several prominent startups.

I held 4 jobs in 5 years working in 7 countries for SAP. Most of them involved building things such as: governance, risk & compliance, enterprise performance management, transportation & logistics, workforce scheduling & java middleware.

My first experience in a world class engineering & product culture. I worked on product & market strategy for Weblogic Portal and Weblogic Integration.

Collaborative sales CRM for enterprises (e.g. Privia, Salion).

Business development, strategy and product marketing for a B2B payments company serving customers like GE and Thyssen Krupp.

Strategy development and operations improvement projects for clients like GE, Prudential and Waste Management.