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Chris Golda

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Oct 22, 2026
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Chris Golda

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Chris Golda is a General Partner at YC. He was the co-founder and CEO of BackType (YC S08), a data infrastructure & analytics company acquired by Twitter in 2011, where he subsequently launched and ran the Ad Center product, growing revenue to over $1B. The work at BackType became the basis for the Lambda Architecture, and Chris helped open source Apache Storm.

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Chris Golda is a General Partner at YC. He was the co-founder and CEO of BackType (YC S08), a data infrastructure & analytics company acquired by Twitter in 2011, where he subsequently launched and ran the Ad Center product, growing revenue to over $1B. The work at BackType became the basis for the Lambda Architecture, and Chris helped open source Apache Storm.