Often, it takes just one person, one investor, cofounder, or even customer, to make an entrepreneurial dream a reality. For Andrew Lau, it was Phil Braden and Dave Gourley who changed it all. Dave first hired Andrew as an intern in 1999, when they were both working for a tech startup in Boston. Shortly thereafter, Andrew, Dave and Phil found themselves working together in the early 2000s at Endeca, an e-commerce search engine acquired by Oracle for more than $1 billion in 2011. Eventually, the trio joined forced to cofound Jellyfish, a software company aiming to do for engineering what Salesforce did for marketing. Jellyfish landed on the Forbes list of the Next Billion-Dollar Startups in 2023 and Andrew, once the intern of the group, is the company’s CEO. This journey would not have been possible, he says, with anyone other than Dave and Phil.
How This Next Billion-Dollar Startup Founder Went From Intern To CEO
