Backblaze raises pricing personal code#

Gleb: So, when we started, our CTO was always religious about backups. Why didn’t they use any of the solutions that existed? There were all kinds of solutions for doing it. I’m going to get around to it this weekend.”Īndrew: I get that. The answer was usually, “Umm… Well… I’ve been meaning to do something. We started asking all of our friends and family what they did for backup. What I need is for you to get me my data back.” It was like, “You don’t have a backup? We can’t help you.” Where is your backup?” It seemed like, “Everybody backs up their data.” She starts pounding the table and saying, “Look, what I don’t need now is a lecture. We’ll get you a new laptop and get you reinstalled. Gleb: So, a friend of ours last her data. And this whole crazy thing started because a friend of yours lost their data and your response to your friend was what? So, early, early on, I was definitely pretty nervous about it.Īndrew: All right. So, we had something where we called the octopus pod because we drilled all these holes in the bottom of our storage server and had all these dangling cords coming out the bottom so we could be analyzing the storage server while it was accepting data. There were various points in time early on where we were iterating through on the design and we didn’t feel like it was solid. We had launched and we were getting customers in and on the website, it was like, “Hey, come and sign up,” and inside the company, we were like, “Are we going to have enough space? Are we going to have enough cache? Are we going to have enough drives? Is this going to stay up?” I felt like that at various points in time.

There’s the analogy of being a duck, where everything seems calm above ground and you’re just running as fast as you can underneath the water. I’m going off half-cocked in this whole other direction that everybody seems to be saying is wrong.” Did you ever panic like that? I’ve seen what you guys are up to.Īndrew: But did you secretly–I want to get into how you built up the business, but before I do, I just had to ask you–did you secretly think, “What am I doing? I’m going to lose people’s data. I’m going to bring up photos that one of your cofounders put up of your parties. Just to be totally clear, I am one of five people that started the company together. It was definitely an evolutionary process. So, having you have that background is awesome.Īndrew: When you were creating these old pieces of hardware, did you think, “What am I doing?” at any point or did it just click for you mentally and so you went with it? A lot of times people start off and they just see where we stand today. I love that you followed us for as long as you have and know some of the backstory. Gleb, what did you think of the way I did my intro? If you need a developer, I really urge you to go check out. That means that they’ve expanded beyond backup. They offer the lowest-cost cloud storage on the planet. I invited him here to talk about how he built up his business, why he decided to go that direction, about whether he was secretly a little freaked out when he was putting everyone’s data in their own customized hardware backup system.Īnyway, Gleb Budman is the cofounder of Backblaze. Today it feels like all those questions that I had are gone. Isn’t this going to fail? What happens if he loses his data?Īnyway, that’s the stuff I was reading about. I would look at screenshots like I was looking at porn to see how was this guy creating hardware to store data, people’s backups in the cloud, his own person cloud he created. I would read comments on Hacker News about this. I’ve got to be a geek on some degree because I would just eat up his freaking blog posts about how he’s creating his own hardware. He decided he’s going to create his own freaking hardware. This guy, instead of doing that, was creating his own freaking hardware. It seemed like a natural that if you’re doing online backup, they use one of the cloud storage systems that are available, like Amazon. I first discovered this guy because just something that seemed a little crazy to me. Other times they commute or run.īut the goal is to give you stories that will just be embedded in your brain, make you smarter so that when you’re ready to need the ideas from these entrepreneurs, they’re just there in your head and you can access them as naturally as you can your home address without having to write it down.

Backblaze raises pricing personal code#

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