 From the heart of Silicon Valley, it's theCUBE. Covering CloudNow's seventh annual Top Women Entrepreneurs in Cloud Innovation Awards. Hi, Lisa Martin with theCUBE on the ground at Facebook headquarters. We're here for the seventh annual CloudNow Top Women Entrepreneurs in Cloud Innovation Awards, welcoming one of the award winners and a CUME alumni to the program. We have Tong Tong Gong. You're a co-founder and COO of Amber Data. Welcome back to theCUBE and congrats on the award. Thank you, thanks for having me, Lisa. Our pleasure. So, you've been on theCUBE before. We'll talk about Amber Data in a second and I love the name, so I want you to tell us a little bit about that. Health and Intelligence for Blockchain, but one of the really interesting things about you is you are a technical, female co-founder of a venture funded company. A lot of words there, huge accomplishment. Thank you. Tell us about the inspiration. What was the opportunity? Was it your idea? Was it your co-founder's idea? How did this opportunity for the technology come to fruition? And then how did you as a female go and lead and get funding for this technology? Wow, how much time do I have? I can talk all day on this subject. So I'll start at last 2017 summer and I was just very intrigued with blockchain technology and the potential of how blockchain can change our life and take our identity, assets, have full control, remove intermediaries and I had a full time job at that time and leading engineering for a startup company and I just don't have enough time in the day to learn about this new technology and what's the better way to do it and then jump right in, start our own company and start from blockchain data. So my background is in data analytics and computing and when I start learning blockchain I realize blockchain data, it's stored, it's immutable, but it's really hard to access. It's really hard to analyze. It's really hard to process without all the tools that we all know and comfortable with. So that's me, my co-founder, at that point we're going back and forth with this new technology and the opportunities and I think it's his idea and let's do something with the data that's stored on blockchain. So Ember data, the company's name, it's because Nick Zabel did a podcast with Tim Ferriss and Neval and about blockchain is a fly trapped in Ember upon layers and layers of Ember solidify and the bubbles and the fly, you can still see it but it's immutable, you can't change it anymore. So we're like, what brilliant name is that? Ember data and without a tool, a platform like us, you can't possibly count all the bubbles in the Ember. So we help you extract the bubbles from the Ember, the flies from the Ember and analyzing it and that's what we do. Wow, that's a great analogy, a great name. So health and intelligence for blockchain. Blockchain is a very hot technology topic, every company out there, whether they're a startup born in the cloud or legacy enterprise wants to be doing something in blockchain. Was that as a female co-founder, was that an advantage for you when you went in to venture capitalist looking to get funding? What do you think some of those advantages were? We, honestly, I always consider being female is an attribute of me, it's not the definition of me. So I don't get, you know, my gender doesn't define me, it doesn't constrain me, it's just who I am and I'm also engineer, I'm also incredibly curious all the time, I'm also bubbly, I'm also a wife, I'm also a daughter, so there's just many attributes of me and when we start a company we went into lots of friends and VCs and meetups and we'll talk to anyone about our idea and looking for advice, looking for validation and that's really what led us to got the funding. I love that, so and that you were saying, and it's, one day I hope we'll be to a place where gender doesn't define us but we know the numbers in females and technical roles but it sounds like one of the things that you leverage maybe were some of those softer skills, very personable, you had a great idea, you clearly have passion for it and kind of building your own groundswell with meetups and a network seems like a really one of the key initiators of your success. I, now you put it that way, I think so. I never thought about that way, yeah, because in the beginning you really tried to define and refine the idea and the product and are you solving a problem? What is the problem that you're solving and you really can't get answer unless you talk to lots of people and I think perhaps being a female it really helps me just to talk to people all day long. It's good that you can do that so genetically I think we both have that in common. Well tonight as we wrap up here you're presenting in front of Sheryl Sandberg who is probably one of the beacons that women have globally. Not just in technology, she's obviously written some incredibly inspiring books about a number of different life situations but you must be pretty excited to have the opportunity to not only be a co-founder but to be recognized by this award and have somebody as prestigious and inspirational as Sheryl in the audience. I absolutely, I have both her books, Lin Yin and Option B and I actually bought both books in Chinese version for my mom as well. So I have four copies. So I'm a huge fan of Sheryl and I think she's very inspirational about leaning in and take a seat at the table and one of my friend Jamie Moy once said, girl, let's forget about taking a seat. Let's create a table. Let's create a seat for other people. Girl, let's create a seat. I love that. Tongtong, thank you so much for stopping by. Congratulations on the award and we look forward to having you back on theCUBE again talking more about what you're doing with Amber Data. Thank you for having me. We want to thank you. You're watching theCUBE. I'm Lisa Martin from Facebook headquarters. Thanks for watching.