Uretsky: The majority of software on DigitalOcean virtual machines is open source
Ben Uretsky · a16z Podcast | What Software Developers (and Therefore Every Company) Need · Jan 2, 2019 · at 28:59
Ben Uretsky, CEO and co-founder of DigitalOcean, discusses software usage patterns among developers running workloads on DigitalOcean's cloud.
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“The virtual machines that run on our cloud the majority of the software that's loaded on them is also open source.”
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