Sam Ramji, currently the Chief Strategy Officer at DataStax, has had a diverse and extensive career spanning over two decades. He has worked with Microsoft, where he directly collaborated with Bill Gates on open-source initiatives, leading to the launch of The Outercurve Foundation. Additionally, Sam held executive positions at Apigee, Google, Autodesk, and Cloud Foundry Foundation. Recently, he engaged in a captivating conversation with Jeff Carpenter, hosted by DataStax's podcast, "The Distributed Data Show." This discussion covered various topics and was so engaging that it spanned two episodes.