
A technical book once did the selling before Amandeep Khurana joined the call. From co-founding Okera to bringing Claude into enterprises, he has kept returning to the same question: what makes a customer willing to bet on you?

He helped create Apache Parquet, worked on faster Spark queries, and co-founded Okera to tackle the permissions queue. Nong Li’s career follows a stubborn question: what keeps people from using their data?