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u/rauchg grew zeit.co (Now) [0][1] -> next.js [2] -> Vercel [3] iteratively over 3 years to raise Series A and B within 8 months of each other. Along the way,
by ignoramous 6y ago
u/rauchg grew zeit.co (Now) [0][1] -> next.js [2] -> Vercel [3] iteratively over 3 years to raise Series A and B within 8 months of each other.
Along the way, showing how OSS businesses can win: Slowly but steadily (looking at you mesosphere).
Congrats to everyone at Vercel! God knows it has taken very many pivots to finally reach here.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12320489 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12320489
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18407503 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18407503
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12788922 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12788922
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22933479 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22933479
- swyx 6y agothe timing of the A and B are certainly unusual. curious what changed and whether it was "a formula starting to work" or "need cash" or "pre emptive B". i guess it's not really any of my business but it'd be nice to know.
- justicezyx 6y agoAbout Mesosphere: Mesosphere was started by Berkeley PhD interned at Google Borg. They worked on some exploratory project to expand the capabilities of Borg platform and wrote some paper. Unfortunately, that project was on a slightly skewed direction of the technical trend. The philosophy and direction embodied in that project was neither useful inside Google, nor it matches the industry trend. But nonetheless an interesting improvement. With the reputation of the group and relationship they decided to start a company. And once docker is out, and kubernetrd next, in 2014 many have seen that mesos the technology is bound to irrelevance. That prediction verified itself rather quickly, when mesosphere rebranded itself d2iq.