 Hi, Jeff Frick here. We are on the ground at Cassandra Summit 2014 at the Western St. Francis in San Francisco, California. We're joined now by Clint Smith, General Counsel for Datastacks. He's the guy keeping track of everything. Great show. Yeah. I'm very excited to be here. The company has terrific momentum both on the open source Cassandra user base as well as enterprise customers and we're just coming off raising $106 million of venture capital around at the company. $106 million. Yeah, it's a real war chest to fund our continued growth of the database platform and also opens up a lot of possibilities. One is we've made an investment in a community member, Instacluster, does a hosted Cassandra team out of Australia. That's the type of thing you can do when you have a war chest like we have now. So talk a little bit about that because I don't know that the venture capital game is not easy. Making investments in companies, a lot of them don't pan out, which is why those guys make a lot of money. At the same hand, we talk a little bit off camera that it's really about investing in the community. When you build an ecosystem in a community, good things happen. I wonder if you can talk philosophically about what you guys are doing on that front. Yeah, as an infrastructure software player, the ecosystem is fundamental to your success. I was at MySQL and we saw companies in our ecosystem like Splunk become $5 billion companies today and I remember when Splunk was five guys from Seattle with black t-shirts in our MySQL exhibit hall. So really to be a great infrastructure software company, you need a vibrant dynamic ecosystem and there are a lot of ways we contribute to that ecosystem. Great code, great partnerships and then in some cases we'll make a small investment. Yeah and we'll be at Splunk.com for our third year and they're still wearing the black t-shirts by the way in Vegas in next month. So I wonder if you can just give us kind of an update on data stacks. How big is the company? Obviously just put some money in the bank. We've got kind of this international distributed conference going on here because of this distributed database. So can you give us a quick kind of company update? Sure, we're 350 employees today. We'll be over 400 by the end of this calendar year. In terms of customers, over 500 customers and a meaningful stat for us is 25 out of the Fortune 100 are using us. We're a great solution for the largest enterprises and organizations in the world who have massive data needs to manage. It sounded like in some of the keynotes that some of the key competitors or perceived key competitors are maybe falling by the wayside or a little bit of consolidation and things kind of sorting themselves out? I think the market is sorting out. All of us serve a slightly different market. So we have respect for our colleagues at MongoDB. They have a great database for someone who's a scripting developer who wants to quickly add database functionality to their application. We're all about the enterprise. We're all about Java developers building big scalable apps that are easy to manage. We're focused really on large organizations in the enterprise and that's very different from MongoDB. Yeah, great stuff. Well, Clint, thanks for stopping by. We just grabbed them out of the hall. That's what we like to do. I'm Jeff Frick. We're on the ground at Cassandra Summit 2014. We'll be right back with our next guest after this short break.