Today, programming software company Mashape announces a $18 million investment, led by famed Silicon Valley firm Andreesen Horowitz.
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This CEO was so broke he had to crash on Travis Kalanick's couch — now he's raised $18 million from Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz is investing $18 million in a founder who had to survive via couchsurfing and Airbnb.
Kong CEO Augusto Marietti
It was 2009, and 18-year-olds Augusto
So as software just keeps on eating the world, Casado says, there's going to be even more demand for software like Mashape's Kong, which can help company manage this exploding world of APIs. And as it is, he says, Kong is already the most popular software of its type out there. And, true to the lessons, that Marietti learned from Airbnb's founders, Kong has a thriving community of thousands of open source developers using it in their own projects
"I think now is the time to be bold because now is the time to disrupt the infrastructure," says Casado.
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