A Silicon Valley Entrepreneur's Journey

Co-founder and CEO of YotaScale, Asim Razzaq, will share his experience building and scaling a cloud systems management company based in Silicon Valley and Pakistan. The strategy of successful fundraising, acquiring initial customers, attracting amazing talent and succeeding against all odds.

Event Details

Date: August 18, 2016
Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Venue: Level 03, Auditorium , Arfa Software Technology Park Lahore.

About the Speakers

Asim Razzaq is co-founder and CEO of YotaScale. Prior to YotaScale, Asim was Senior Director of Engineering at PayPal and eBay where he ran the cloud infrastructure and helped build the PayPal Developer Platform from zero to a billion dollars in payments volume. He has lead engineering for multiple early and late stage startups in Silicon Valley and Austin with two of the companies exiting to Netsuite and Navitaire.

Abbas Yousafzai is the co-founder and CTO of YotaScale. Prior to YotaScale, Abbas was the CEO and Chief Architect at Conrad Labs where he helped numerous startups scale their businesses and engineering teams resulting in several acquisitions in the cloud and software security space. YotaScale is applying machine learning and data science to cloud systems management. The platform helps companies reduce costs while optimizing performance for their cloud infrastructure deployments. The company has raised a seed round from key investors including former Foundation Capital partner and VMWare executive Ashmeet Sidana, former VP Engineering at VMWare and Director at Facebook Jocelyn Goldfein and former CEO Oracle On Demand and Stanford Cloud Computing professor Timothy Chou. YotaScale was recently profiled in an exclusive in the Wall Street Journal.