Nextcast Q&A: Tier 3 co-founder Jared Wray on the future of cloud computing
August 19, 2013
Grazed from GeekWire. Author: Jeff Dickey.
Jared Wray, founder and CTO of cloud computing startup Tier 3, is helping to build the future of enterprise business. A serial entrepreneur, Wray is most excited about how cloud technologies help customers move faster and cheaper, allowing for efficient iteration and innovation. His company scored $10 million last year from Madrona, Ignition and Intel Capital, an it continues to grow fast with addition of experienced tech leader Matthew Schiltz as CEO earlier this year.
In this edition of Nextcast, Wray discusses his thoughts about cloud computing, as well as his own entrepreneurial background which he said started from being broke…
- “I love the look on people’s face when they get the a-ha moment that cloud computing is about eliminating the human cost effort,” Wray says. Enterprise business has run technical operations in nearly the same ways for the last 30 years, he added, explaining the many manual tasks older tech systems require. Using the cloud, though, enterprise teams are now able to “eliminate 70 percent of the mundane tasks” that IT staff are normally tasked with. (1:00)
- How did Wray become an entrepreneur? He says: “It came from being broke.” Growing up in a family that struggled to make ends meet, Wray got used to the idea that you have to work hard to make something happen. And that lesson stuck, he says. “Innovation and the will to make something happen.” (6:25)…
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