Ben Gabler
Founder & CEO, Rocket.net. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Ben Gabler is a web hosting entrepreneur who founded Rocket.net in 2020, developing an edge-first managed WordPress hosting platform. Across a 20-year tech career, he founded HostNine, served as Chief Product Officer at StackPath, and held leadership roles at GoDaddy and HostGator.
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Everything Ben Gabler said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
WP Engine takes 6-12 months to scope features Rocket.net ships quickly
“Activity logging feature at WP Engine, it'd take six to 12 months for them to even figure out what they want to build, whereas we're built in a modern environment, all modern frameworks, end-to-end test suites, API first, things that just don't exist in our in…”
Rocket.net's largest hosting customer pays $110,000 in ARR
“We were founded in twenty-twenty largest customer, a 110,000 ARR, pretty unheard of in the hosting world.”
Sean Hannity hosted his website on Rocket.net's early MVP
“If you look at our first version, you're like, wow, like, Sean Hannity hosted his website on that. He didn't care what it looked like behind the scenes. He just cared that he got a 99% cash hit ratio, and everybody around the world was able to access his websi…”
Writing a press release first forces discipline and product clarity
“Starting with a press release gives you discipline. You will figure out what you're going to build, nothing more, nothing less. This is it. And what it also does is it helps you sort of find your product market fit, and it will change 20 times over and over ag…”
Rocket.net's MVP was built by piecing together off-the-shelf components
“I took things off the shelf and put them together behind the scenes, knowing my customers would never see it, and I presented a solution in a way that hasn't been done before in this industry.”
Domain prefixes like 'get' or 'on' confuse offline ad audiences
“Startups like to do get rendered, get whatever the name is, or on cloud, whatever the name might be. That's a great idea. Until you put it on a billboard and nobody knows how the hell to find you.”
70% of reviewers given free hosting converted to paying customers
“Seven out of 10 became paying customers cause they were just blown away by the product.”
Rocket.net reached $1M ARR with zero successful ad spend
“So, a million in ARR with zero dollars in successful ad spend.”
Rocket.net wasted $70,000 on marketing agencies that misunderstood its products
“We wasted 70,000 dollars on marketing agencies, because they just did not get our products.”
Rocket.net reached $1M ARR and $101k in monthly revenue
“We've gone from zero to, you know, over a million in ARR. You know, we cleared a 101,000 last month.”
Rocket.net launched with under $30,000 in startup capital
“So how we got off the ground with less than 30,000 dollars sounds crazy, but over the last 20 years I've been able to make some really good contacts in different development areas,”
Rocket.net paid zero server costs during its first year
“Startup programs we didn't pay for a server for the first year. Had some friendships and relationships, startup credits, and kind of walking through that.”
Alternative cloud providers readily grant free startup credits upon request
“Contact some of these phoenix naps of the world that are not Google Cloud or Amazon and say, hey, I want to build something. Can I get a startup credit? And they'll give it to you. Cloudflare. All of them.”
Rocket.net owned a $50,000 domain while making $13,000 in annual revenue
“We've got this 50,000 dollar domain name and we're doing 13,000 a year in revenue.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Ben's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Rocket.net | 1 | 16 | 100% 1/1 | full record on Top Founders → |