Aaron Newman
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We got about $6 million for it.
It was fairly successful.
Yes.
It was cutting edge.
It was actually interesting because we had our own data center.
That was the learning lesson around
why not to build your data center?
Because a huge waste of time, a huge suck of, you know, I was physically ordering hard drives and memory and they were shipping them.
I was driving them to the data center and installing them.
And by the end of it, I was like,
This cloud thing makes sense.
Yep.
Correct.
Tell us about how you got into it.
Well, so after exiting the last one, we kind of realized this cloud really makes sense.
And this is 2011, so it's been about seven years.
And back then, people looked at us and they were like, I'm never putting my data center in an Amazon cloud or a Microsoft cloud.
And having lived and breathed it, I said, you know what?
It's like the power companies, right?
People in the 1850s, people built their own power plants.