Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
I first met Ethan in 2005. He then pointed out that for service-based businesses every slot that went unfilled the provider had very high fixed costs and very low marginal costs and people ought to be willing to sell low-demand or last-minute expiring times at a discount while selling premium times at full price or even a surge price.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. But that doesn’t mean that people are paying rational prices as investors based on intrinsic value. That’s fine. And so on down then line.
Tech Zulu Event
OCTOBER 7, 2013
To understand that assertion, let’s observe how and when Google encroached on each layer of the technology value chain required to access any web service. Web browser – even a functional computer with an OS isn’t enough to access most Google services. Search is just another web application.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
He saw that the industry was being disrupted globally, and actually started with the idea of building a new company that could be scalable, and flexible, and offer delivery of that content at competitive pricing. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. Who are your core customers? I have a Ph.D.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 29, 2015
Those loans are very mis-priced, in our opinion. I went and started a company called Urchin Software Corporation, which was an early player in Web Analytics, which was acquired by Google in 2005, and then I was at Google for just shy of a decade. We're also 100 percent focused on debt.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 19, 2008
Historically, it was something that started to develop before our launch with operators back in 2005, and it now serves as a laboratory for development of our product. And it also looks like there's some pricing difference between carriers--is this something you drive, or do they set pricing? So it's a white label offering.
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