Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%. What’s astonishing and few other than those who lived it as startups (I launched my second startup in this era) realize is how profound of an impact that rise of Amazon AWS (S3 & EC2) had on the startup market.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers.

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socalTECH

JULY 14, 2010

Damarillo is best known for founding Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005, and has since been starting up firms whose basis is open source software.

El Segundo 124

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example.

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