Ben Yuretsky: DigitalOcean Is World's Fastest Growing Cloud Provider
Ben Uretsky · a16z Podcast | The End of Ownership · Jan 2, 2019 · at 3:32
Ben Yuretsky, co-founder and CEO of DigitalOcean, discusses his company's growth rate during an Andreessen Horowitz panel on cloud infrastructure and asset ownership.
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“So, we're actually the fastest growing cloud provider on the planet today, and that's because we've built an experience that looks like nothing else that's out there.”
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