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Torkel Ödegaard is the creator and project lead of Grafana, and co-founder of Grafana Labs. Learn how Torkel went from modding video games to building a data visualization platform, and co-founding a company that is now offering a complete monitoring service built on Prometheus.

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Links from the interview

• The 2001 dot-com crash
• Rocket Arena mod for Quake 3
• Extreme ironing
• Tradera
  • IT contracting
  • The Mythical Man Month
• Graphite
• Kibana
• Grafana
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• A $50m Series B funding round
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• Torkel Ödegaard on Twitter