Zach Rosen

So about $50 million.

So that was back in 2011.

I think we closed our seed round.

It was invested mostly in the product.

It took us a while to get to market.

It took us a couple years because from the get-go, we knew we didn't want to be constrained with the typical kind of problems that hosting companies run into.

So the way most of our competitors do this is they put you on basically a VM.

On a what?

On a virtual machine.

Yep.

And then, but if you want to iterate on your website, you know, develop on it, you safely, you want to have, you know, a different dev environment.

So then they would have to spin up a second VM.

And then when you actually deploy the website in the live environment and deal with, you know, lots of traffic, you probably want to cluster with high availability.

And then you end up basically the spew of servers.

And so you end up running, if you're running at our scale, you know, in the tens of thousands of servers you'd have to manage.

And then, you know, scaling between them is very complicated.

They're all a little bespoke, so it's hard to manage them at scale.

So we knew we wanted something an order of magnitude more efficient.

And so we took the time to build what we saw as kind of the right way of doing it, which is to do it on a containerized platform.

So we were the only ones who have a multi-tenant operations platform for Drupal and WordPress.