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6 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 19, 2019 by Ben Uretsky · across every show →

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Mar 19, 2019 negative
Opinion
Uretsky: AWS is difficult to use and has a steep learning curve
“While AWS is a great tool, there's a pretty big steep learning curve. It's difficult to use, as I said.”
Ben Uretsky Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 5:08 Fireside Chat: Ben Uretsky, Founder of DigitalOcean (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Mar 19, 2019
Disclosure
Ben Uretsky: DigitalOcean finances all capex with debt to avoid equity dilution
“We still to this day use debt to buy all of our servers and storage and networking equipment, all the capex for the business because it just, it's that much cheaper rather than taking on the dilution and bringing on an equity investor.”
Ben Uretsky Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 17:36 Fireside Chat: Ben Uretsky, Founder of DigitalOcean (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Mar 19, 2019
Disclosure
Ben Uretsky: DigitalOcean spoke to 10 to 15 investors per fundraising round
“I think we had a good run in terms of we spoke to about 10 to 15 investors in each of our rounds”
Ben Uretsky Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 15:42 Fireside Chat: Ben Uretsky, Founder of DigitalOcean (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Mar 19, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Uretsky: DigitalOcean's core primitives roadmap took five years instead of one
“That roadmap has taken a lot longer to deliver than I expected. I thought it was a one-year roadmap. It took us more like five”
Ben Uretsky Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 29:24 Fireside Chat: Ben Uretsky, Founder of DigitalOcean (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Mar 19, 2019
Disclosure
Ben Uretsky: DigitalOcean raised $123M in venture capital and ~$300M in debt
“We've raised one hundred and twenty three million. And I think we've raised roughly like three hundred million in debt”
Ben Uretsky Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 17:28 Fireside Chat: Ben Uretsky, Founder of DigitalOcean (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Mar 19, 2019 bullish
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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)
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