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Uretsky: Kelsey Hightower rated DigitalOcean's Kubernetes UX superior to Google's
“Kelsey Hightower, one of the core contributors to Kubernetes and over at Google, our friendly company, actually surveyed a bunch of different providers delivering Kubernetes services and said that DigitalOcean provides the best developer experience And is the …”
Ben Uretsky Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 22:48 Fireside Chat: Ben Uretsky, Founder of DigitalOcean (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
a16z Assertion Supported
Ben Yuretsky: DigitalOcean Is World's Fastest Growing Cloud Provider
“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.”
Ben Uretsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:32 a16z Podcast | The End of Ownership
MAD Prediction Not checkable as stated
Uretsky: Virtual machines are phasing out as containers become dominant
“The virtual machine, which was essentially the start of DigitalOcean, is now starting to slowly begin to kind of phase, you know, phase out, and you're starting to see containerized applications become much more dominant.”
Ben Uretsky Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 21:51 Fireside Chat: Ben Uretsky, Founder of DigitalOcean (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
MAD Prediction Not checkable as stated
Uretsky: Cloud providers will struggle with multi-tenancy in serverless architectures
“In order for that transformation to happen, I think the cloud providers, Are gonna have a hard time trying to figure out the multi-tenancy, ah, part of the equation, but that's certainly where the world is headed, and in functions, you can already begin to see…”
Ben Uretsky Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 23:37 Fireside Chat: Ben Uretsky, Founder of DigitalOcean (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Uretsky: Over half of DigitalOcean's signups come from word-of-mouth recommendations
“And even to this day, over half of our customer signups come through a word of mouth recommendation, keeping our cost of acquisition really low and essentially creating a viral component to our business, which is really unheard of to think about, you know, a u…”
Ben Uretsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:57 a16z Podcast | What Software Developers (and Therefore Every Company) Need
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Uretsky: All Major Cloud Virtualization Engines Possess Equivalent Performance
“There are two or three popular ones. And it's kind of like, you know, Silicon used to build processors. No one has a substantially faster CPU than anyone else you know, today. And the same thing happens in virtualization. Everyone's virtualization engine is, i…”
Ben Uretsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:46 a16z Podcast | An Open Source Business Model That Works
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ben Uretsky: Linux containers will win over virtualization in public cloud
“Linux containers will win.”
Ben Uretsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:24 a16z Podcast | An Open Source Business Model That Works
MAD Assertion Supported
DigitalOcean generated over $200 million in revenue in 2018
“Last year we did over two hundred million in revenue, and that's seven years since we started.”
Ben Uretsky Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 1:35 Fireside Chat: Ben Uretsky, Founder of DigitalOcean (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
MAD Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Uretsky: DigitalOcean's largest customer accounts spend over $1 million annually
“Some of our largest accounts are spending over a million dollars a year with us.”
Ben Uretsky Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 6:30 Fireside Chat: Ben Uretsky, Founder of DigitalOcean (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Uretsky: DigitalOcean's remote staff show slightly higher engagement than in-office workers
“Our remote employees are just one or two points more engaged than our in-office employees.”
Ben Uretsky Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 24:58 Fireside Chat: Ben Uretsky, Founder of DigitalOcean (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Uretsky: DigitalOcean attracts 4 million monthly visitors via 1,500 developer tutorials
“So, to date, we've published 1500 tutorials that talk about how to leverage open source software. We're educating developers worldwide on how to write code, how to deploy applications, And we're drawing in four million unique visitors a month to this community…”
Ben Uretsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:55 a16z Podcast | What Software Developers (and Therefore Every Company) Need
a16z Prediction Held up
Ben Uretsky: Flash will replace spinning disks for primary storage
“Well, flash. I think that's a no-brainer.”
Ben Uretsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:12 a16z Podcast | An Open Source Business Model That Works
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
DigitalOcean has over 500,000 monthly active customers
“We've had over a million all-time customers, over 500,000 that are active every single month”
Ben Uretsky Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 1:47 Fireside Chat: Ben Uretsky, Founder of DigitalOcean (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Uretsky: DigitalOcean gets about 3 million monthly visitors to tutorials
“We've written a couple thousand tutorials on how to leverage open source, and chances are you've read some of these articles, ah, searching for different solutions, and we write about databases, we write about different data storage, ah, engines, but we also w…”
Ben Uretsky Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 12:06 Fireside Chat: Ben Uretsky, Founder of DigitalOcean (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Uretsky: DigitalOcean maintains an NPS score of nearly 70
“And so we have a really high NPS score of nearly 70, which means that people really love this service, and so they do a great job of introducing it to a friend.”
Ben Uretsky Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 12:34 Fireside Chat: Ben Uretsky, Founder of DigitalOcean (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Uretsky: The majority of software on DigitalOcean virtual machines is open source
“The virtual machines that run on our cloud the majority of the software that's loaded on them is also open source.”
Ben Uretsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 28:59 a16z Podcast | What Software Developers (and Therefore Every Company) Need
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Yuretsky: DigitalOcean Developer Community Draws Nearly 3 Million Monthly Visitors
“And the community that we've created, it draws nearly three million, ah, visitors per month at this point.”
Ben Uretsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:01 a16z Podcast | The End of Ownership
a16z Assertion Supported
Uretsky: Global Developer Count Reaches 20 Million, Growing Millions Annually
“There are twenty million developers worldwide, ah, today, and that grows at a couple million people per year.”
Ben Uretsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:46 a16z Podcast | An Open Source Business Model That Works
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