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Budman: Backblaze stores about half as much data as Dropbox
“And at this point we are storing about half as much data as Dropbox.”
Backblaze Went Public With Just $65 Million in ARR
“When we went public, this was the chart that we went out on the roadshow with. A few different numbers on there, but focus on the one that says sixty-five million of ARR. It was not 300. We still went public.”
Budman: Backblaze Storage Costs One-Quarter of AWS and Google
“And so we actually introduced a, an offering where you can use storage for anything, similar to an Amazon or Google or a Microsoft offering, but one quarter of their price point.”
Backblaze Paid $10M to $15M in Fees for Its IPO
“So it cost us, you know, 10 to fifteen million dollars to take the company public. Kind of a big number. Most of that went to the banks because they take seven percent of what you raised, but there are lots of other places where you actually have to spend mone…”