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Anand Babu Periasamy and the art of leaving things out
From a bedroom full of servers to MinIO, Anand Babu Periasamy has kept returning to one question: how much machinery can you remove before the useful part disappears? His answer now reaches into the infrastructure behind AI.
Mahesh Patel and the Accountant’s Instinct for the Sale
He studied law, mastered the finance function, and kept drifting toward the customer. At MinIO, Mahesh Patel's useful contradiction - the CFO who envies the salesperson - has become the job.
Erik Frieberg’s Long Game: Make the Infrastructure Legible
From Oracle applications to MongoDB communities and MinIO’s exabyte pitch, Erik Frieberg has built a career translating the machinery beneath modern software into reasons for people to care.
Garima Kapoor Bet the Cloud Would Come Back to the Data
She trained to read balance sheets, then helped build the storage layer for machines that never stop reading. MinIO's co-founder explains why focus, open standards, and staying close to the data still matter in the AI era.
Anand Periasamy
Anand Babu 'AB' Periasamy is the Co-Founder and CEO of MinIO, the world's most widely deployed open-source object storage platform with over 2 million Docker pulls per day. A serial entrepreneur from Tamil Nadu, India, he previously co-founded Gluster Inc. — the distributed file system company acquired by Red Hat for $136 million in 2011. With MinIO, he built a Kubernetes-native, Amazon S3-compatible storage engine that became foundational infrastructure for AI, machine learning, and data-lake workloads. In January 2022, MinIO closed a $103M Series B at a $1 billion valuation, cementing its unicorn status with backing from Intel Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Dell Technologies Capital, General Catalyst, and Nexus Venture Partners.