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Lightwork · August 18 · 32 min

Eon CEO: “The Cloud Is Just Someone Else's Computer” | Lightwork

Ofir Ehrlich, CEO and co-founder of Eon, joins Claire Zau to explain why the cloud data enterprises pay to store and rarely open turned out to be the thing their AI needs most. Ofir walks through the four companies he has started, including CloudEndure, which he sold to Amazon before leading AWS's cloud migration and disaster recovery business. He assumed backup was a solved problem until a customer he had worked closely with was hit by ransomware and lost access to a significant portion of their infrastructure, which sent him looking at what breaks in the cloud that never broke on premises. They discuss how enterprise data sits locked across business units that cannot say what they hold, what happens when an auditor asks for records from five years ago and the database no longer runs, and why backup can rack up a company's cloud spend while staying something nobody trusts. As models and compute platforms become easy to swap, Ofir argues, a company's accumulated data becomes what actually differentiates it. He also talks about building Eon with a best friend of 26 years and a colleague he hired at AWS, and why he would not start a company without friends in it. Chapters:00:00 Welcome, Ofir Ehrlich!05:22 Why Companies Moved to the Cloud07:08 Learning Through Angel Investing08:41 The Founder Mindset: Imposter Syndrome vs. Conviction10:23 Building a Company Around What You Love13:11 How AI Is Changing Enterprise Data17:05 The New Cloud Infrastructure Organization19:09 Why Recovering Old Data Can Be So Difficult20:25 Why AI Teams Need Enterprise Data22:33 What Eon Actually Does24:40 How Eon Helps Make Data Usable26:47 Choosing Eon's Co-Founders30:29 What's Exciting in AI Right Now?31:37 Final Thoughts

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Ofir Ehrlich, CEO and co-founder of Eon, joins Claire Zau to explain why the cloud data enterprises pay to store and rarely open turned out to be the thing their AI needs most. Ofir walks through the four companies he has started, including CloudEndure, which he sold to Amazon before leading AWS's cloud migration and disaster recovery business. He assumed backup was a solved problem until a customer he had worked closely with was hit by ransomware and lost access to a significant portion of their infrastructure, which sent him looking at what breaks in the cloud that never broke on premises.

They discuss how enterprise data sits locked across business units that cannot say what they hold, what happens when an auditor asks for records from five years ago and the database no longer runs, and why backup can rack up a company's cloud spend while staying something nobody trusts. As models and compute platforms become easy to swap, Ofir argues, a company's accumulated data becomes what actually differentiates it. He also talks about building Eon with a best friend of 26 years and a colleague he hired at AWS, and why he would not start a company without friends in it.

Chapters:00:00 Welcome, Ofir Ehrlich!05:22 Why Companies Moved to the Cloud07:08 Learning Through Angel Investing08:41 The Founder Mindset: Imposter Syndrome vs. Conviction10:23 Building a Company Around What You Love13:11 How AI Is Changing Enterprise Data17:05 The New Cloud Infrastructure Organization19:09 Why Recovering Old Data Can Be So Difficult20:25 Why AI Teams Need Enterprise Data22:33 What Eon Actually Does24:40 How Eon Helps Make Data Usable26:47 Choosing Eon's Co-Founders30:29 What's Exciting in AI Right Now?31:37 Final Thoughts

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