DigitalOcean

“First of all, I mean, those are both top tier VC firms. They have tremendous portfolio companies and a great reputation. So all of that was kind of table stakes. So it really was about the personal relationship with that individual, how well they understood th…”

“Moisey is the co-founder and chief product officer at DigitalOcean, the second largest and fastest-growing cloud computing platform, with more than 700,000 developers, having deployed more than twenty million cloud servers.”

“Every single cloud provider was, you know, a bit clunky. It wasn't really elegant. It wasn't something that you enjoyed using”

“Most great companies start off with bad ideas. Otherwise, everybody would be doing it, and there wouldn't be any space for you.”

“I mean, because that's the one that as a startup you have to read because that's going to give you the secret to big, to beat out those big incumbent companies. Everything else is Kind of structures into that. That's the one that you need to really understand …”

“Any relationship that you have prior to founding a company, whether it's brother or husband and wife, best friends, whatever that relationship looks like before the company, it will look like that during the company, except it's like pouring fuel on the fire. …”

“We remember, you know, having one of our Series A, You know, potential investors come by and had like our technical due diligence and this person had this huge technical background and we're sitting there shitting our pants thinking, oh my God, he's going to l…”

“We finally sent an update after we hit product market fit, said, hey, we hit 500 K in annual revenue, and then basically, at that At that point, it took him three weeks to get back to me, which was unusual. And by the time we came into the office, we said, yea…”

“A crowded market space means lots of customers, so I think there's always an opportunity to look at those spaces, especially if you firmly believe that The product that they'built is not one that you personally want to use.”

“I think the biggest unexpected challenge is one that continues is how your personal relationship to the company and your role continues to evolve and change and how it's really difficult to guess what it's going to look like in the future. And then when you fi…”

“The two investors that we loved the most was Jerry Chan from Greylock and Peter Levine from Andreessen Horowitz.”

“DigitalOcean was built entirely on SEO farm. So was Zapier and others.”