People Friday | Hello Tech Pros

AB Periasamy builds software like an artist builds a masterpiece. By inspiring others to believe in the idea and the design and contribute to it's success. Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy is a free software contributor, angel investor and an entrepreneur.  AB is one of the founders of Minio, an open source cloud storage server. Prior to Minio, AB co-founded Gluster, an open source distributed filesystem. AB is also on the board of Free Software Foundation - India and has authored GNU FreeIPMI and GNU FreeTalk. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/ab-periasamy-people/ Key Takeaways Don't have people managers. Instead, build a culture that encourages self-managing individuals. Software development is more like creating art than mass-producing products in a factory. Build the culture and they will come. Industry experts may be brilliant and also be the wrong people to have on your team. They come with pre-conceptions on what will work and what won't. They might be motivated by money instead of by your goals. Min