Moisey Uretsky
Founder & CEO, Statype. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Moisey Uretsky is the co-founder and former Chief Product Officer of cloud hosting platform DigitalOcean, which he scaled through Techstars and venture funding into a public company. He is also an angel investor, the founder and CEO of Statype, and an endurance sports car racing driver.
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1said about them ↓ Everything Moisey Uretsky said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Uretsky: Apple will never match iPhone scale with another product category
“So when I read online about, you know, all of these different pundits talking about, you know, what's Apple's next big thing, my answer is there isn't one, because it has nothing to do with Apple. It has to do with the market. If you can't Find another thing t…”
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…”
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.”
Uretsky: Most great companies start off as seemingly bad ideas
“Most great companies start off with bad ideas. Otherwise, everybody would be doing it, and there wouldn't be any space for you.”
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.”
Uretsky: Business complexity comes from answering fundamental questions, not asking them
“There's nothing Extremely complicated about business. It's really just a set of questions and the complexity comes in when you have to answer those questions.”
Uretsky: Early cloud infrastructure providers were clunky and unpleasant to use
“Every single cloud provider was, you know, a bit clunky. It wasn't really elegant. It wasn't something that you enjoyed using”
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…”
Uretsky: Massive business scale requires intersecting necessity with customer love
“Really what gave them this gigantic market cap of being the largest company in the world was the fact that they found this intersection of need and love, right? Everybody in the modern day world needs a cell phone. They made a product that is absolutely loved,…”
Uretsky: DigitalOcean's Series A technical due diligence focused on culture over code
“We remember, you know, having one of our Series A, You know, potential investors come by and had like our technical due diligence and this person had this huge technical background and we're sitting there shitting our pants thinking, oh my God, he's going to l…”
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…”
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…”
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. …”
Uretsky: Scaling requires turning founder beliefs into company culture
“As a company begins to scale, you have to transform, you know, what each founder believes, what each founder stands for into an actual culture that then permeates the business.”
Uretsky: DigitalOcean favored Jerry Chen and Peter Levine during Series A
“The two investors that we loved the most was Jerry Chan from Greylock and Peter Levine from Andreessen Horowitz.”
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 …”
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…”
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…”
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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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