DigitalOcean

13 statements across 1 episodes · 8 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 19, 2019 by Ben Uretsky · said 17 times in 3 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Mar 19, 2019 neutral
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)
Mar 19, 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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 positive
Assertion Contradicted
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)
Mar 19, 2019 positive
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)
Mar 19, 2019 positive
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)
Mar 19, 2019 bullish
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)
Mar 19, 2019 positive
Disclosure
DigitalOcean is currently developing a GPU-based solution
“I think for us in our roadmap, we have to deliver a GPU based solution first, and we're working on that right now.”
Ben Uretsky Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 27:58 Fireside Chat: Ben Uretsky, Founder of DigitalOcean (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Mar 19, 2019 positive
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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)
Mar 19, 2019 positive
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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)
Mar 19, 2019 positive
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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)
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