Woody Rollins moved to Santa Barbara from Boston in 2004 and was quickly impressed that Santa Barbara tech focused on “the hard stuff,” like cloud computing. He cofounded Eucalyptus Systems, which raised $5.5 million from Benchmark Capital in 2009 and was sold to Hewlett-Packard in 2014.

Woody now runs AppScale Systems, which lets users run their GCP and AWS workloads seamlessly across different public, private or hybrid cloud systems.