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E15 Building a cloud unicorn for developers with Digital Ocean co-founder Moisey Uretzky

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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Moisey Uretzky, co-founder of Digital Ocean. Digital Ocean is a cloud infrastructure unicorn built for developers and headquartered in New York City. In this episode we journal the founder journey from getting into Techstars to scaling the company with venture debt to a recent unicorn valuation.

00:00 Setting the scene

03:55 The Uretzky family

05:22 Roots of intellectual curiosity

07:15 Mathematics and first principles thinking

09:18 Startups before Digital Ocean

14:16 Finding co-founders on Craigslist

19:16 Digital Ocean MVP

23:12 First major Product Iteration: 5$ SSD Plan

29:36 Getting into Techstars

32:35 Raising the Seed from IA Ventures

37:19 Raising the Series A from a16z

42:28 Using venture debt to scale up

47:19 Scaling up Digital Ocean

54:22 Competition with big tech cloud providers

59:00 Running Digital Ocean during the Corona pandemic

  continue reading

52 episodes

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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Moisey Uretzky, co-founder of Digital Ocean. Digital Ocean is a cloud infrastructure unicorn built for developers and headquartered in New York City. In this episode we journal the founder journey from getting into Techstars to scaling the company with venture debt to a recent unicorn valuation.

00:00 Setting the scene

03:55 The Uretzky family

05:22 Roots of intellectual curiosity

07:15 Mathematics and first principles thinking

09:18 Startups before Digital Ocean

14:16 Finding co-founders on Craigslist

19:16 Digital Ocean MVP

23:12 First major Product Iteration: 5$ SSD Plan

29:36 Getting into Techstars

32:35 Raising the Seed from IA Ventures

37:19 Raising the Series A from a16z

42:28 Using venture debt to scale up

47:19 Scaling up Digital Ocean

54:22 Competition with big tech cloud providers

59:00 Running Digital Ocean during the Corona pandemic

  continue reading

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