Issac Roth has a track record of building infrastructure companies right as major platform shifts take off, then getting handed the reins to run them inside the companies that acquired him—Red Hat put him in charge of OpenShift after Makara was folded in, and IBM made him CTO for API Management after StrongLoop was acquired, a pattern that traces back to his design background at Stanford rather than a typical computer science path. He's kept building ever since, most recently with LeakSignal and Orama, making him less of a typical career investor and more someone who keeps founding infrastructure companies while also investing in them.