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Backblaze turns 5 – a startup grows up
- ryannielsen 14y agoA fantastic timeline of how to build a company, one step at a time. Just keep pushing forward and suddenly, five years later, you have a thriving, successful, and profitable company. Congrats, Backblaze! And thank you for sharing.
- brianwski 14y agoThanks! It's been extremely fun this time around partly because we decided not to take any VC funding. (We were all part of a previous startup that took VC funding and it causes some complications we wanted to avoid this time.)
- rdl 14y agoWow, congratulations! Are you still all in one datacenter? Have you considered replication?
- swGooF 14y agoGreat Story, even better product. I recently signed up for my 3rd year of service with BackBlaze.
- jgmmo 14y agoWhats the deal with the guy in horsehead costume?
- brianwski 14y agoIn the Backblaze spirit of building it ourselves to save money, instead of any traditional security system, we have little web cams that monitor the office for motion and page us with pictures of the activity when there is unexpected motion too early before anybody is supposed to be in the office. I wanted to test if anybody was paying attention to the alerts, so I bought a horse head mask and walked around the office super early. The robe was a random afterthought to help disguise my clothing that might be recognized. I'm happy to report the experiment worked. Motion detected, emails sent out within a few minutes. I also had a good laugh. :-)