Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. We raised $16.5 million in our A round.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). People feared they were going to have a monopoly over the Internet due to “bunding&# Internet Explorer with their operating system.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). reinvented, with more people online and trained. It was mostly timing.

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