Harinarayan also co-founded Junglee Corp. and played a significant role at Amazon.com in the late 1990s.

Originally from Bombay, India, Harinarayan has a PhD in computer science from Stanford University (1997, under Jeffrey Ullman)[1] and a masters from UCLA.

While at Stanford, Harinarayan co-wrote a paper[2] on implementing data cubes with Anand Rajaraman and Jeff Ullman, which is among the top 600 most cited computer science articles over the last 20 years.

[5] Harinarayan then became general manager at Amazon.com, where he worked with founder and CEO Jeff Bezos to help create Amazon.com's marketplace business.

Cambrian funded companies like Mobissimo, Aster Data Systems and TheFind.com.