AWS Elemental: Ex-AWS Elemental exec launches serverless cache startup

In 2015, Khawaja Shams was recruited from within Amazon Web Services to join the Seattle company's newest acquisition, a Portland company called Elemental Technologies. He was already toying with the idea of starting his own company, but the pitch from Elemental's late co-founder and CEO Sam Blackman changed that. "(Blackman) was trying to convince me to come to Portland and join Elemental. He told me doing a startup is a big leap and maybe if you don't want to go directly from a big...