Founder's Friday: Yottaa

Submitted by pardees on Fri, 05/20/2011 - 9:13am

Who are the faces behind a company? How did the company get started? These are common question you may have about startups you see and hear about. If you don't get a chance to personally meet the founders, you're unlikely to ever know their story. That's what Founder Fridays is all about.

This week, we have Coach Wei, CEO of Yottaa, a company that makes websites faster.

1) What is your current Startup? (Name & URL)

 
Yottaa
 
2) What's the elevator pitch?
 
Yottaa makes websites faster.  We provide all-in-one cloud services to help test, benchmark, monitor and optimizer website and web application performance.
 
 
3) When did you know you wanted to be an entrepreneur?
 
In college.  Largely from reading Bill Gates stories.
 
4) How did you meet your co-founders?
 
At my previous company Nexaweb. My co-founder Bob Buffone joined Nexaweb around 2003 right around the time I raised Series A. 
 
5) What was the best advice you ever got?
 
Just do it!
 
Nothing else matters more than "just doing it". That is the only way to make things happen.
 
6) What Startup(s) are you most excited about today? Why?
 
Of course, it is Yottaa. There is a tremendous market opportunity ahead of us. We blend web 2.0 with hard to build technologies together to deliver a new kind of experience to an otherwise huge but boring space, the speed of the web.  At Yottaa, we are experimenting with a few interesting concepts that are worthwhile for other companies to think about:
1.  Consumerization of IT.
2 . Building a global organization from day one.
3. Using engineering for marketing
 
We enjoy the challenges along the way. We love speed and high performance.  It is fun and we've barely scratched the surface so far.
 
 
7) What's your favorite part about being an entrepreneur?
 
The best part of being an entrepreneur is that you will never having a dull moment in life.
 
There are always more things on your shoulder that you can possibly do. There are always problems and challenges one after the other.  The road is never flat. It always goes up and down. So life is really engaging, never boring and always hopeful.
 
 
8) If you could recommend one book for entrepreneur's to read, what would  it be and why?
 
Tony Hsieh's book "The Pursuit of Happiness". Great read. It tells you that "overnight success is a result of years in making".
 

 

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