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 [email protected] to be connected!

Where to find Daniela:

* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielamiao/

If you want to feature your own startup, reach out to [email protected] with a blurb on why you’d be a good fit.

Referenced:

* Momento

* Lightstep

* DynamoDB

* Caching

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