Peter Beck: How one CEO transformed his fascination with space into a billion-dollar rocket company

Many companies claim they’re a rocketship—but few mean it literally. As a young child growing up in New Zealand, Peter Beck, CEO of Rocket Lab, spent a lot of time stargazing. His fascination in space inspired a passion-driven career of building a billion-dollar rocket company. Today, Rocket Lab touts the highest launch success rate of any rocket company in history—and was the first private company in the southern hemisphere to go to space. In this conversation, he shares founder lessons on how to build an unlikely business, driven by passion.Listen to all the Wish I Knew episodes: https://www.bvp.com/wish-i-knew

Failure. It's no fun, but it's a part of life — and big failures can often be the springboard to even bigger successes. That's why we're launching Wish I Knew, a new show from Bessemer Venture Partners about the revelatory, life-changing, "a-ha" moments that founders, CEOs and leaders discover along their business journeys and why taking risks leads to growth. Season 1 premiered on November 14th, so tune in.

Daniel Dines is the co-founder and CEO of UiPath, a leading provider of enterprise automation software. Dines started UiPath in 2005 with the goal of building a solution that could help humans reduce the time and stress that come from menial, administrative business tasks. Today, Dines’ vision is to make software robots, powered by computer vision and AI, as common as PCs in the workplace. He not only graduated from the Cloud 100 list in 2021, but also did so with record-breaking success in its most recent IPO in April. UiPath raised $2 billion of venture capital on their way to a blockbuster IPO and today trades well above $30 billion in the public markets. In this episode, Daniel talks about the early days of being a developer, the challenges and opportunities of starting a business in Bucharest, Romania, and his unique way of leading and managing his own mindset in order to drive success for UiPath with 3,000 employees around the globe.  Join us for The Cloud 100 - RSVP before August 10, 2021! https://thecloud100.com And to hear more from Cloud Giants go to https://www.bvp.com/atlas/cloud-giants

In this final episode of this special micro season of Cloud 100 conversations, we’re highlighting the rising stars of the cloud industry and the ways in which Millennial and Gen Z entrepreneurs are approaching company building with fresh eyes and unique values. In this conversation, we hear the founding stories of Baron Davis, former NBA allstar and CEO of Baron Davis Enterprises, Elizabeth Zalman, CEO of StrongDM, and Yonas Beshawred, CEO of Stackshare and what motivates them to build new solutions on the cutting edge of their fields. To learn more, go to: https://www.bvp.com/atlas/cloud-giants

Welcome back to Cloud Giants in a special micro season featuring the incredible conversations we had with top CEOs at this year’s Cloud 100 virtual summit. Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly, Yancey Spruill, CEO of DigitalOcean, and Dave MacJannet, CEO of HashiCorp, come together to discuss how their companies serve the global developer community, the strategies they’ve implemented to earn the trust of developers who use their products, and the stories behind how organizations and the world have changed due to developer innovation. Let’s dive into this insightful conversation about how developer platforms are the foundation to today’s digital industrial revolution. To learn more, go to: https://www.bvp.com/atlas/cloud-giants

For any leader that has helped a company go public they know one thing is true: The IPO isn’t the finish line—it’s a new beginning. In this conversation, Pierre Naude, CEO of nCino, Therese Tucker, CEO of BlackLine, and Zander Lurie, CEO of SurveyMonkey share what they wish they knew before leading their company through the transition of going private to public, and the leadership advice they’d offer emerging cloud leaders today. To learn more, go to: https://www.bvp.com/atlas/cloud-giants

In this special episode from Cloud 100, we’re talking about how the go-to-market strategies of B2B SaaS companies have evolved over the years, as more companies successfully scale at breakneck speeds. In this conversation, Karen Peacock, CEO of Intercom, Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight, and Manny Medina, CEO of Outreach, discuss the various models of GTM success as cloud companies build, grow, and scale. Plus they share frameworks and advice to leaders on the decisions they navigate in order to align functionally across the organization and drive customer adoption, retention, and expansion.  To learn more, go to: https://www.bvp.com/atlas/cloud-giants

As we all know, today’s leaders are the drivers of tomorrow’s innovations but they also play a large role in supporting social movements, philanthropy, and giving back to build a better tomorrow. At Cloud 100, we heard what the new guard of tech increasingly wants as told through the stories of four CEOs: Stephen Curry, CEO of SC30, Inc. and athlete for the Golden State Warriors, Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom, Frank Slootman, CEO of Snowflake, and Jennifer Tejada, CEO of PagerDuty. In this conversation, They discuss the legacies they hope to build with the companies they’re leading and how their values translate into the change they’re driving and the decisions they make each day. Together these leaders dive into the strategies to future-proof their businesses and the future of the tech industry. You’re in for a real treat.  To learn more, go to: https://www.bvp.com/atlas/cloud-giants

As we close out the year, I wanted to bring you a special micro season featuring some of the conversations we had at this year’s Cloud 100 2020 Summit. In these five episodes, you’ll hear from top CEOs on topics ranging from what matters to the new guard of tech, how developer platforms will run the world, what makes millennials and Gen Z approach entrepreneurship differently, and so much more.  To learn more, go to: https://www.bvp.com/atlas/cloud-giants 

In the tenth episode of Cloud Giants, we have Scott Farquhar, the co-founder and co-CEO of Atlassian. At a roughly $50 billion dollar market cap, they’re not only the pride of Australian tech, but one of the flag bearers for cloud and developer platforms globally. Millions of users globally rely on Atlassian products every day for improving software development, project management, collaboration, and code quality. We dive into Scott’s story of Atlassian’s founding, the leadership insights he’s learned throughout Atlassian’s 18-year journey, and what he thinks work will be like in the coming decade.