Ryland Goldstein didn’t know what he wanted to do. A three-year veteran at developer integration company Reshuffle, which he helped found, he left just before COVID hit, and was looking for a professional direction. Through connections, he met Maxim Fateev, and everything changed.
Around the time Goldstein was leaving Reshuffle, Fateev, formerly a Senior Staff Engineer at Google, was founding Temporal, an open-source app-building software company with Samar Abbas. The company has become so successful that it netted $146 million in Series C funding in March at a $1.72 billion valuation, but, at the time, was staffing up. When Goldstein saw Temporal’s mission, he was hooked. “This is something fundamental,” he said in a recent interview. “It's not some enterprise workflow, but it's way more than that.”
The company was made in Fateev and Abbas’s images, drawing on their decades of experience in the sector. Fateev worked not only at Google but at Uber, Amazon, and Microsoft, something approximating a Mt. Rushmore of tech behemoths, but Temporal isn’t just for the big guys—its solutions are designed for giant companies and smaller businesses alike.
Fateev started developing Temporal’s technology at Uber and has, with Abbas, stewarded it through 10 years of tinkering, tweaking, and revising to get to where it is today: an infinitely scalable platform that anyone can run with an MIT license.
Goldstein may not have known what he wanted to do, but Fateev and Abbas did. Now Goldstein’s in his sixth year at Temporal and counting. Visionaries show the way. With Temporal so widely available, scalable, and affordable, many companies are following suit.
