Netflix Loses Its Cloud Guru to a VC Firm
January 7, 2014
Grazed from Bloomberg. Author: Editorial Staff.
It used to be good enough for venture capitalists just to hand out money. Well, not anymore. Now they’re expected to offer up a suite of services and give their startups access to things like marketing coaches and technical advisors. The latest example of this arrives on Tuesday, with Battery Ventures announcing the hiring of Adrian Cockcroft as the company’s first “technology fellow.”
Cockcroft is a veteran of the technology industry, having worked at Sun Microsystems and EBay (EBAY) as a distinguished engineer and most recently as a cloud architect at Netflix (NFLX). His work at Netflix notably included overseeing much of the company’s move from running its own data centers to relying on Amazon.com’s (AMZN) cloud-computing infrastructure…
Netflix became Amazon’s most-talked-about cloud customer, and Cockcroft in turn gained some measure of fame in technology circles as a daring engineer. “I am thrilled to be joining Battery, one of the pioneers in investing in the cloud-computing space and a firm whose internal culture mirrors Netflix’s,” Cockcroft said in a statement. “Both firms are very open to trying new things.”…
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