David Meyer

I build stuff - great teams, products, customers, and businesses. I've been fortunate to be one of the first employees of a great company (Plumtree, 1997), and to have managed most of the functions there (QA, Engineering, Product Management, Program Management, UX, Support), learning a ton along the way. I continued the journey at BEA (BEA acquired Plumtree in 2005), but had to jump off the train when Oracle bought BEA. I scoured SF for the right startup opportunity, but was convinced to build a 'startup' within SAP in 2008. Yeah, I know. But we built a Rails/Freemium/Cloud/Open/etc. collaborative glue called StreamWork that is still kicking today (as SAP JAM). In the SAP journey I picked up large business experience with the BusinessObjects portfolio, and operated at scale. But after 2.5 years it was time to get back to my roots. To start pure and fresh. I co-founded UniversityNow (unow.com) in May 2011, running Product, Engineering and UX. Built a tiny team and created a groundbreaking open university system in 11 months, earning accolades from Gates Foundation and the Dept of Education, with a beautiful mission: students earned an accredited degree without any debt. We made it pretty far but didn't find sustainable product market fit. In 2013 I joined the team at OneLogin, pioneers in cloud identity management, and we grew from a small team into a real company over the last 4 years. Running engineering and then product management, delivering a business critical cloud infrastructure to the most amazing customers in the world. But I couldn't resist the return to analytics when Databricks called. So here I am, with the biggest opportunity I've ever witnessed before me, as companies re-imagine their businesses on top of data. I can't wait to get started.