July 12, 2021

From disrupting the cloud to IPO (Founders Talk #76)

1 hour 10 minutes

This week Adam is joined by Mitch Wainer, previously CMO at DigitalOcean and a member of the founding team. They talk about his journey as an entrepreneur and marketer, the early days at DigitalOcean, and everything that went into disrupting the cloud with blazing fast SSDs. Back in March (2021), DigitalOcean started trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) — this obviously earned Mitch and many others a very large payday. They also talk about the work Mitch is doing now with Welcome and Sponsored.

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Show Notes:

This Week in Startups #425: From caller to cofounder: how Mitch Wainer raised $37.2m from Andreessen Horowitz

DigitalOcean OR do.co/changelog if you want to use a link DigitalOcean no longer pays us to promote

DigitalOcean becomes a public company

DigitalOcean IPO

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