The Magnificent Journey of Kishore Gopalakrishna, the CEO & Co-Founder of StarTree

A leading technologist and the co-creator of Apache Pinot, Kishore Gopalakrishna founded StarTree to truly democratize real-time analytics and unlock the power of data. StarTree has raised a total of $75 million in venture capital. In this episode of The Tech Icon, he shares his startup journey, the concept of learning to learn, and his passion for the game of cricket. A medium pace bowler turned batsman, Kishore dreamed about becoming a truck driver as a little boy. He holds a bachelor’s in electronics from the National Institute of Technology in India. Kishore loves solving hard problems and lives in Los Altos with his family. He enjoys being a robotics dad to his daughter, Sanvi, and a chess dad to his son, Saahas.