This Former Yahoo-er's Startup Is So Hot, Even the CIA Invested In It
Silicon Alley Insider Jan 31 12
Meet Amr Awadallah, one of four all-star co-founders of Cloudera.
Although Cloudera is only three years old, it has the earmarks of a billion-dollar winner. The company just raised $40 million last November, bringing its total to $75 million and among its big-named investors is the Central Intelligence Agency who is also a customer.
"We are building this to be a huge, huge company," he explains. "My preference is to go public but it could be a big suitor taking it." Indeed, rumors are circulating that Dell might be that suitor.
Cloudera customers are building applications that literally change what is possible with the Internet, based on a technology called Hadoop that was invented by Google and perfected by Yahoo. Full story...
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