1. Tokyo API Meetup
OpenAPI Specification + Mashape
Friday, 22 Jul 2016
Augusto Marietti, Co-Founder/CEO of Mashape
Twitter: @sinzone
2. Who Am I?
• Born in Rome, Italy
• Studied in Milan
• Dropped out for Mashape (CEO)
• Moved to USA
• With no money nor connections
• Raised +$10M
• Bezos, Index, CRV, NEA, Stanford
• Love to cook Italian Food
• History is one of my passions
• Obsessed with Microservices
• Slept on a bench once
• Also slept at Travis Kalanick house
• Ski and Water-polo
• Want to store memory
• First time in Japan!
• Sushi + Kobe beef “the real one”
• I don’t fly, but I have big dreams
• Mother says that it’s always my fault
3. Who is Mashape?
- Building tools for managing the HTTP layer between software and devs
- Founded in 2010
- Offices in SF, Toronto and London
- Grew 2X headcount in 8 months