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Those bios are a bit strange. They all manage to fill multiple paragraphs without actually saying anything relevant about themselves. Instead it's just strings of empty phrases like "I make magic happen" or "my DNA pushes me to always seek out the vanguard of technology". (Your DNA, really? Did one of your ancestors invent fire?)

To read the real bios, you need to click through to the people's LinkedIn profiles. This reveals that the founders come from companies like Oracle. I don't know if that explains anything.



CTO is a professor at UNH, Chief Scientist is from UNH and used to work at Virtual Iron which was acquired by Oracle, then he worked at Akiban until they were acquired. It appears some of their patents (http://www.google.com/patents/US20130290243, http://www.google.com/patents/US20130254208, http://www.google.com/patents/US20130226931) were assigned to Cloudtree Inc., which appears to have originally been something totally different but with what seems to be the same team: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2011/02/st...

I'm puzzled.


VirtualIron was a huge disaster of a company - they pivoted multiple times without ever finding market fit, then pissed off potential acquirers with their attitude, after which they laid everyone off and sold the remains to Oracle for a pittance ( I remember hearing it was ~$10m).

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/with-virtual-iron-o...




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