Disclaimer: I work for Backblaze. > It took me like 2 fucking minutes to get working. It's ridiculously simple. I'm so glad you said that, thank you! Our con

Disclaimer: I work for Backblaze. > It took me like 2 fucking minutes to get working. It's ridiculously simple. I'm so glad you said that, thank you! Our confidence is sometimes shaken when a customer says they would prefer it to be S3 compatible. It honestly isn't that hard, I always wonder what the disconnect in communication is. > My concern is more that they'll be acquired by some shitty company Backblaze is not for sale. And definitely not for sale to shitty companies. And even for non-shitty companies Backblaze is not for sale at prices any company would probably want to spend (or could justify to their board). I don't know if this is common knowledge but Backblaze is employee owned. We never took any significant VC funding, so the only people with voting rights on the board of directors are the original 5 Backblaze founders (including myself). We like what we are doing and we COMPLETELY control our own destiny and work environment. Literally nobody (except customers) can tell us what to do, how to price our products, or what features to build. Backblaze is a fun company to work at, and we all make a good living. So it would be inordinately expensive to buy us out just to put us out of business and dissolve our tight-knit group here and ruin all our fun. Our plan is to stay independent forever. More background: the original 5 Backblaze founders have worked together for 19 years and have worked together at three startups. The first two starts were acquired by shitty companies. I do not want that to happen ever again, as long as I live. You know what it is like spending YEARS of your life building something beautiful, then hand it over to a shitty company and stand helplessly by while the beautiful product is first twisted, mangled, then withers and dies? It sucks. It sucks dead bunnies through a bent straw. So Backblaze was born different. Backblaze was born LEAN. The original founders and a few demi-partners going 18 months without salary, and another year on minimum wage, so that we wouldn't lose control of it. Employee-owned. Employee-run. Not. For. Sale.