Peter Zaitsev: Open-Source Entrepreneurship and the Percona Story
How do you grow a 350-person, globally distributed tech company—without outside venture funding?
In this episode of Triangle Tweener Talks, we chat with Peter Zaitsev, Co-Founder of Percona, who bootstrapped his open-source database services and software company from a scrappy two-person startup in the U.K. to a $50M+ revenue business headquartered right here in the Triangle.
Peter’s story is anything but linear. He talks about growing up in the Soviet Union, teaching himself assembly code on paper before he even touched a real computer, and starting his first company at age 19—where he…
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