Akamai

includes Akamai Prolexic

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 10, 2017 by Nathan Latka · said 25 times in 12 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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brought up most by Nathan Latka (12), Shlomi Gian (5), Ilya Semin (2), Eric Tang (2), Vlad Malinan (1), Ramin Sayar (1), David Barrett (1), Alex Yampolskiy (1)

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May 10, 2017 neutral
Assertion Supported
Latka: Akamai acquired Travis Kalanick's Red Swoosh for about $15M
“That was Travis's first company, which was acquired by Akamai in 2007 for about, I believe that deal was about fifteen million bucks.”
Nathan Latka May 10, 2017 ▶ 1:39 655: Expensify 450k Customers Paying $9/mo for Expense Reports that Don't Suck with CEO David Barrett
Aug 16, 2017 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gian: PacketZoom drastically reduces customers' traditional CDN bills
“Many of our customers are using traditional web CDNs like Akamai, Amazon, CloudFront, et cetera. Once they start using PackageZoom, this bill almost goes away, and they can replace it with a better service and all that. Technically, They don't have to change. …”
Shlomi Gian Aug 16, 2017 ▶ 5:03 753: With His Tool, Mobile Browsing on Spotty Wifi Doesn't Suck
Dec 17, 2025 negative
Opinion
Malinan: Cloudflare and Akamai built-in media compression is not great
“Other suppliers like Cloudflare, Akamai, they already have the built-in. One, which is not great, but for most of the customers, that works.”
Vlad Malinan Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 11:41 Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story
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