Founders Table
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A Team First Approach for Building Startups with Daniela Miao
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A Team First Approach for Building Startups with Daniela Miao

Daniela Miao is one of the founders of Momento, an enterprise ready real-time data platform. Momento makes it easy for engineers to add distributed caching and real time pub sub with just a few lines of code. Prior to Momento, Daniela was a tech lead at AWS DynamoDB and the Director of Platform Engineering at Lightstep.

In our conversation, we discuss:

  • Thought process behind leaving big tech to work at a startup

  • Team First Approach of building a startup

  • Pivoting from B2C (consumer fitness) to B2B (infra)

  • Getting initial big name design partners

  • Momento's globally distributed team

  • Becoming a new parent while running a startup

Closing Questions:

- advice to current startup founders: Understand the financials of your business and focus on gross margins

- when you think of success, who comes to mind: No particular individual - more focuses on self-growth and becoming a better version of myself

- how do you recharge: exercise and social gatherings

- any recent small investment in the last year that has had an outsized impact: regular exercise

Offer: Friends & Family discount if you want to try out Momento's service. Forward requests with use case and details to offers@founderstable.co to be connected!

Where to find Daniela:

If you want to feature your own startup, reach out to kevin@founderstable.co with a blurb on why you’d be a good fit.

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