Bitnami
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Brescia: Keep acquisition discussions limited to the smallest possible group
“So it's best to keep the discussion within the smallest group of folks possible so you don't disrupt the business and create unnecessary stress and uncertainty for your team while you're working through the details.”
Brescia: Bitnami almost raised funding for an enterprise launch before its acquisition
“In the case of Bitnami, we were at a point where we were going to launch an enterprise Product. And we had been bootstrapping for a long time, and now we're going to need to raise funding or basically sell the company. And we went out to do the funding round i…”
Brescia: Extreme founder frugality and DIY chores severely slowed Bitnami's early growth
“You know, when I reflect on Bitnami, we tried to do way too much too early in the early days. I was literally doing everything. You hear this a lot, like, you know, founders take out the trash. I definitely did that. I did everything. I even cooked for the tea…”
Brescia: Bitnami packages over 140 apps across 14 platforms
“So we package over a 140 different apps for 14 different platforms, and the way we currently make money is by selling to, ah, the cloud vendors themselves.”
Brescia: Bitnami drives over one million application deployments every single month
“We have over a million deployments a month at Bitnami.”
Brescia: Bitnami rebuilt all its application images in 36 hours during Heartbleed
“When Heartbleed hit, just to give you an example of a security issue that probably everybody remembers because it was pretty painful we rebuilt all of our images in under 36 hours and had them republished to all the marketplaces.”
Brescia: Bitnami patched Heartbleed faster than major cloud vendors in some cases
“In fact, some cases we were faster at republishing our images than the cloud vendors were at rebuilding their own.”
Brescia: Bitnami supports 9 to 10 cloud vendors, including Huawei and Deutsche Telekom
“I mean, I think we have, it's something like nine or 10 cloud vendors, and then a few other platforms we support, and a few more on the way. There are more cloud vendors, certainly, but we're working with most of them in the U.S., and now we're just starting t…”
Brescia: Bitnami reached massive scale almost entirely bootstrapped, without venture capital
“We're bootstrapped. That's amazing. Almost entirely bootstrapped. So that gave us a source of funding without taking on venture capital.”
Brescia: Bitnami converted a $1M YC note without raising a Series A
“We took a million dollars when we went through Y Combinator in 2013, and we took about a million bucks in a convertible note, which is now just converted into equity from a bunch of people who are very smart and experienced operators who now serve as kind of a…”