Moisey Uretsky
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Oct 14, 2016
Uretsky: Micro-details matter more for company culture than big-picture vision
“It's the details that are much more critical than the actual big picture because everyone's worried about the big picture. People ignore the details, but that's where the cracks begin to form that then ultimately become very big problems in the future.”
Oct 14, 2016
Uretsky: VC firm prestige is table stakes; individual partner alignment matters most
“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…”
Oct 14, 2016 positive
Stebbings: DigitalOcean is the second largest cloud platform with 700k developers
“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.”
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Oct 14, 2016 negative
Uretsky: Business books deliver the same education as a $200K Harvard MBA
“And I firmly believe that that's the case. I could either, you know, try to apply to Harvard business school and get in and pay, you know, 200 grand for that education. Or I could read, you know, Clayton Christensen's, you know, Interversive Lemon, pretty much…”
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Oct 14, 2016
Uretsky: Self-directed book learning requires prior operational failure to work
“I think the real challenge around just doing an education that's purely based in books is that you don't have the experience to really draw from, and that's where the 10 years of doing it wrong became critical, because then when you're reading the book, you kn…”
Oct 14, 2016 positive
Uretsky: 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is essential reading for startups to defeat incumbents
“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 …”
Oct 14, 2016
Uretsky: Co-founding with friends or family amplifies pre-existing relationship dynamics
“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. …”
Oct 14, 2016
Uretsky: First company failed to convert customers due to poor positioning
“Our first business wasn't really positioned well. It was kind of like we're a server stack. We do the same thing as rack space. So why would you go with us instead of rack space? So they just had great positioning. It doesn't matter if our service is better or…”
Oct 14, 2016
Uretsky: DigitalOcean grew revenue 66% in three weeks around its seed round
“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…”
Oct 14, 2016
Uretsky: Crowded markets represent massive opportunity if existing products fail users
“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.”
Oct 14, 2016
Uretsky: A founder's hardest challenge is adapting their evolving company role
“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…”