Lucas Carlson

Lucas Carlson is a serial entrepreneur, software veteran, and keynote speaker. He founded and led AppFog, a platform-as-a-service startup that signed up more than 100,000 developers and raised nearly ten million dollars in venture funding before it was acquired by CenturyLink in 2013. He is also the bestselling author of the Ruby Cookbook and was profiled in the bestselling book The Lean Entrepreneur. In Finding Success in Failure, Carlson shares candid confessions from ten years of startup mistakes so that other founders can avoid the same missteps.