Frederick DeWorken

CEO Data Services StartUp BlueYeti

Frederick DeWorken grew up on a 3-acre "poor farm in Amarillo, Texas, and would travel to Santa Cruz, California every summer with his grandmother. In 1989 his step-father bought him his first computer. He has been hooked on "high-tech" ever since.

But even after completing his undergraduate degree at UCSC and his MBA at Santa Clara it did not click for him that he could make a career out of tech, he was instead focused on more secure, traditional career fields like law.

It was going to the Peace Corps that reset some thought patterns and brought Fred to the realization of high-tech sales as a lucrative and attainable field. Upon returning from his service in Panama, he secured a position as an early employee at hyper-growth Tableau Software (#180) and then, in 2018, at Snowflake, Inc. (#454). He served in both instances as the initial Latin America GTM executive and was able to participate in each company's IPO.

Fred resides in Austin, TX with his wife and 9-year-old daughter where he is building a company called BlueYeti. BlueYeti is a nearshore center of excellence focused on the modern data stack.