Conversation with a Cloud Computing Pioneer, David Young

Conversation with a Cloud Computing Pioneer, David Young

Author: PM Power Consulting April 11, 2025 Duration: 48:12

My guest today is David Young,Founder at Federated Computer. He has been a pioneer in cloud computing even before the term was invented. In fact, he and his team helped invent the term.

In this conversation we could recall many of the developments of a couple of decades ago as well as what keeps him engaged now, at Federated computer.

During this conversation, David touches upon:

  • Introduction and Early Career Journey
  • Transition to Silicon Valley and Startups
  • Contrast Between Corporate and Startup Life
  • Finding Problems to Solve
  • Customer Empathy and Team Dynamics
  • Challenges with Open Source Adoption
  • AI, Open Source, and Future Potential
  • Career Tips for IT and Open Source Enthusiasts
  • David shares his practices and tips to Stay Grounded

About David:

CEO and founder of Joyent — the folks who invented node.js, helped stand up Twitter and the Facebook developer platform, and brought containers to market leading to the Kubernetes revolution. Seven patents. Very experienced raising and deploying venture capital. Sold Joyent to Samsung in 2016.


Started an ultra-premium ice cream company (Honeymoon Brands). Invented unique manufacturing products and processes to put ice cream in glass jars, got in to 700 grocery stores in the West, and learned grocery was a blast. Sold the company in 2018.


I've recently started an agency (Endurancy: https://www.endurancy.com) to take the marketing success I developed at Honeymoon and offer small and medium-sized brands AI-based marketing capabilities.


I’d love to work with a promising company as it develops and grows. I can bring a wealth of experience, mistakes, learnings in fundraising, product and marketing strategy, business and corporate development, engineering development to the company to help it go faster and smarter.


You can reach him @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidpaulyoung/


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