When I first met Tim he was a programmer at Tandem, teaching computer architecture at Stanford and dating my running buddy. We were in London at the first Marathon I ever ran, which I might add I ran in 3 hours and 120 minutes. Over the years he’s brought a unique set of skills to every job he’s undertaken. At Tandem we asked him to lead a next generation project to take our fault-tolerant systems to the next level. He’s always been at the cutting edge of technology. Amusingly in the mid-90s he delivered a speech at Barclay’s Bank on the future of what we called Transaction Service Providers and why centrally managed transaction processing with specialized hardware and software made economic sense. After Tandem we worked together on a new venture to bring the economics and power of specialized software delivered as a service to the challenges of inspecting software for defects.
So while I was sad to see him move back to Oracle to run what was called Business Online at the time, it was no surprise to me that Larry chose him for the job. While I don’t get to work with him on a day-to-day basis anymore I have followed his career since then and was proud of his accomplishments as the President of Oracle’s On Demand business. Since then, like me, he’s become involved in numerous new ventures, which I’m confident with his involvement, will all find a path to success.
Jim Treybig was the founder, President and CEO of Tandem Computers, one of the first successful Silicon Valley startups. Today he is a Venture Partner at New Enterprise Associates.
Contributions
Video:Mainstream Meanings for the Cloud - August 2009
Standardization, Simplification, and Jumping in Headfirst
At the CloudWorld event in San Francisco, panelists question whether cloud computing, quickly gaining mainstream adoption, could replace system ownership entirely. The Panel was moderated by Jeff Kaplan of THINKstrategies and the panelists included Joe Weinman of AT&T Business Solutions, Sam Charrington of Appistry, James Urquhart of Cisco Systems and the CNET Blog Network, and Timothy Chou of Ming Holdings.
Article:The Re-Invention of Software - Optimize Magazine, June 2007 What's the best predictor of the next wave in business-software innovation? It's today's consumer Internet, says the author, who believes we are in the cusp of another innovation cycle.
Video: To Infinity and Beyond, a SaaS Primer by Timothy Chou - May 2007
Podcast: The End of Software - January 2007 For the first time there has been an economic shift in the software business View the Transcript
Audio: Timothy Chou sees vertical applications driving SaaS revolution - August 2006
Timothy Chou