Episode 84: Business Development and Customer Success for Emerging Technologies with Taimur Rashid

As Chief Business Development Officer, Taimur is responsible for developing emerging businesses at Redis and leading strategic business & corporate development. He is currently leading initiatives related to AI/ML. Prior to Redis, Taimur led Worldwide Customer Success for Microsoft's Azure Data & AI. He jointly led the design, implementation, and landing of one of Microsoft's largest field transformations, which combined customer success, support engineering, and technical account management. Before Microsoft, Taimur was the Managing Director for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Platform Technology and Applications - where he led business development from 2008 (near its inception) to 2018 when the business reached $25B in ARR. Taimur helped forge key partnerships and customers, including Airbnb, CapitalOne, Dropbox, Liberty Mutual, NASA JPL, Nasdaq, Netflix, Nintendo, Intuit, SAP, and Samsung. Taimur grew up in three countries and lived in five states. Bellevue, WA is home for him, where he lives with his wife and three boys. Taimur enjoys cross-training, hiking, and biking. He is an avid reader of technology, business, and history. He enjoys art, music, coffee, and cooking on the weekends for his family.