Ion Stoica Interview
Immigrant Computer Scientists
Chapters
3:08
Act 0 – Introduction to and Biography of Ion Stoica
5:25
Act 1 – Early Memories of childhood, and schooling, 1970s and 80s
6:06
He trained as... An Artist!
8:42
Exams, Exams, Exams
11:31
Army vs. College
14:46
Deciding between Physics vs. Computer Science
17:44
Act 2 – Communism, Ceacescu, and effect on Ion’s upbringing and family, 1970s and 80s
22:12
How Ion’s mother, a geologist, was kicked out from college by Communist Party
23:12
When the Communist party tried to recruit Ion. And "The Folder" they maintained on him
25:12
When Communism started to fall apart in Romania, and the Revolution, 1989
29:13
Act 3 – First Encounters with Technology, 1970s and 80s
33:24
Act 4 – Centralized Job Assignment, and Working after MS in Bucharest, 1989
37:06
Act 5 – Immigrating to the US, and moving from Old Dominion to CMU, 1994
43:12
Act 6 – Next steps after PhD in 2000
43:55
Ion’s philosophy of why borders don’t matter
46:45
Has the tech industry in Romania grown since 2000?
48:19
Act 7 – His entrepreneurial philosophy, 2000-Present
48:20
The secret of Ion Stoica’s Entrepreneurial Spirit. His first entrepreneurial venture – Conviva
50:01
A Story of Ion’s first experiences at Conviva, two technical (provisioning) problems, and how they motivated Ion’s next research on Spark and Mesos
54:06
How Databricks almost *didn't* become a company
56:17
Act 8 - Retrospective and Perspective
56:18
Handling Failures and Rejections
58:57
Handling The Fear of Being Wrong
1:00:08
Alternate Realities
1:04:20
Teachers, Mentors, and Role Models
1:07:56
Thank you, and Ending
Immigrant Computer Scientists
Ion Stoica Interview
Apr 13, 2022
Season 1
Episode 32
Indy Gupta, Ion Stoica
Episode 32: Interview with Ion Stoica, Professor at University of California, Berkeley. Creator, leader, and founder of Apache Spark, Ray, Apache Mesos. Founder of Databricks, Anyscale, and Conviva. ACM Fellow, SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award. Immigrant from Romania in 1994.
