Our latest 5-Minute Interview brings to you Arthur Zverko, an Israeli-based Software Team Lead at Equitybee, a company that helps startup employees exercise their stock options and receive pre-IPO shares from privately held companies. Arthur uses graphs in his work and advises graph newbies to learn Cypher from the beginning to build high-performing queries. He sees Neo4j as a natural choice for its developer-friendly approach and has seen surprising results, including two to three times faster query performance after switching to the database. Arthur believes that graph technology will continue to improve with the hosted cloud solution, and he is working closely with Neo to leverage the platform's capabilities and suggest improvements.