text: Docker CEO Steve Singh replaced by Rob Bearden - Business Insider
  $1.3 billion startup Docker gets a new CEO after only 2 years, as the company battles with intense competition
  Docker former CEO Steve Singh
  Steve Singh, who took over for Ben Golub as CEO in 2017, will become the startup's chairman.
  It's yet more turmoil for Docker, a promising company that's seen a lot of executive change, including its famous founder leaving about a year ago.
  Steve Singh's reign as CEO of Docker didn't last very long.
  Bearden is best known as the CEO who led data processing startup Hortonworks to an IPO, and then later to its $5.2 sale to Cloudera, its main rival. He's not considered one of Hortonworks' official six technical cofounders, but Bearden joined the company right at its inception in 2011 and was the CEO for most of his time there.
  Bearden clearly has the chops to navigate Docker's world of commercially successful, open source enterprise software. And that's exactly what Docker needs after the turmoil of its past few months.
  Docker didn't have much of a choice: Docker single-handedly created the market for software containers, a hot technology that's changed how developers build modern applications, but the Google-created Kubernetes software has all but eaten the market for Docker's own Swarm tool, which manages said containers.
  The startup's strength is that it is independent of those big players and their legacy software.
  The still-private Docker doesn't share financials, but Singh said it now has 750 enterprise customers and told Business Insider earlier this month that it is on track to become cash-flow positive by January, at which point it would be free to choose not to take more funding.
  Its original CEO Ben Golub stepped down in May 2017. Its famous co-founder and CTO Solomon Hykes, well-known for spearheading development of the core technology behind the company, left Docker in March 2018. Until Hykes' departure, he was considered the real powerhouse at the company.
  But he also backtracked on his timeline, and even his goal, of an IPO for Docker. A year ago, Singh told Business Insider he was working towards an IPO. This year — a year filled with big-time tech IPOs — he equivocated when put to the question: "We're not building the company for an exit."