Category Visionaries

Matthew O’Riordan, CEO of Ably Realtime: Over $82 Million Raised to Build the Future of Realtime Experience Infrastructure

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Matthew O’Riordan, CEO of Ably Realtime, a real time experience infrastructure platform that's raised over $82 Million in funding. Topics Discussed: Matthew’s background growing up in South Africa, before eventually moving to the UK to found his first tech startup Holding various roles across a career, including CTO and CEO, and having a lifelong passion for coding Admiration for the Collison Brothers, founders of Stripe, for their focus on an excellent experience and empowering developers How GoogleDocs inspired the idea for Ably Realtime, and how they intend to standout by creating more interactive applications The challenges faced by companies across numerous sectors in ensuring sub-100 millisecond latency for a true real-time feel Favorite book: No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

Broadcast on:: 06 Sep 2023

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Matthew O’Riordan, CEO of Ably Realtime, a real time experience infrastructure platform that's raised over $82 Million in funding.

Topics Discussed:

Matthew’s background growing up in South Africa, before eventually moving to the UK to found his first tech startup
Holding various roles across a career, including CTO and CEO, and having a lifelong passion for coding
Admiration for the Collison Brothers, founders of Stripe, for their focus on an excellent experience and empowering developers
How GoogleDocs inspired the idea for Ably Realtime, and how they intend to standout by creating more interactive applications
The challenges faced by companies across numerous sectors in ensuring sub-100 millisecond latency for a true real-time feel

Favorite book:

No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention