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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)
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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)
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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)
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