He should know. An Egyptian, he is the co-founder of Cloudera, one of the Valley’s recent most stunning successes. Founded in 2008, the company, manages and processes avalanches of data for the Internet’s biggest users of it — places like Facebook and Google GOOGL +0.92%. The company, which helps other companies use and customize Apache’s open-source Hadoop software, has about 800 employees and has landed more than $1 billion in funding, including what went to the shareholders and the company. The latest, an F round, came from companies including Intel, Google and T. Rowe Price. The company’s not going public, though — yet, Awadallah said. He was speaking to a group of startups from the Middle East, brought to Silicon Valley for a crash course in technology entrepreneurship designed by the Aspen Institute’s Middle East Programs, and paid for by the Blackstone Group’s charitable foundation. There was a Jordan-based Arabic language platform for kids, an Egyptian company offering medical records management for doctors and an Algeria-based platform for truck drivers to find freight offers, among others.
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He should know. An Egyptian, he is the co-founder of Cloudera, one of the Valley’s recent most stunning successes. Founded in 2008, the company, manages and processes avalanches of data for the Internet’s biggest users of it — places like Facebook and Google GOOGL +0.92%. The company, which helps other companies use and customize Apache’s open-source Hadoop software, has about 800 employees and has landed more than $1 billion in funding, including what went to the shareholders and the company. The latest, an F round, came from companies including Intel, Google and T. Rowe Price. The company’s not going public, though — yet, Awadallah said. He was speaking to a group of startups from the Middle East, brought to Silicon Valley for a crash course in technology entrepreneurship designed by the Aspen Institute’s Middle East Programs, and paid for by the Blackstone Group’s charitable foundation. There was a Jordan-based Arabic language platform for kids, an Egyptian company offering medical records management for doctors and an Algeria-based platform for truck drivers to find freight offers, among others.
