Chad Fowler is a General Partner & CTO at BlueYard Capital who co-founded Ruby Central and helped organize the original RailsConf series, giving him deep credibility in the open-source developer community. He's also an accomplished avant-garde jazz saxophonist who founded the Mahakala Music label in 2019, making him unusually multi-hyphenate among venture investors. Chad Fowler is a General Partner & CTO at BlueYard Capital who co-founded Ruby Central and helped organize the original RailsConf series, giving him deep credibility in the open-source developer community. He's also an accomplished avant-garde jazz saxophonist who founded the Mahakala Music label in 2019, making him unusually multi-hyphenate among venture investors.