Vendia: Serverless and Blockchains with Tim Wagner and David Wells

When Tim Wagner worked at Amazon, he invented AWS Lambda. After working on the early serverless infrastructure, he joined Coinbase and worked as VP of Engineering. Since leaving Coinbase, he has started a new company called Vendia. Vendia combines his learnings from the serverless space with the innovations around blockchains to work on the problem of data sharing. Tim and David Wells join the show to discuss what they are working on with Vendia.

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