Building for application developers (Changelog Interviews #630)
Anurag Goel, Founder/CEO of Render, joins Adam to discuss what they're doing to solve cloud problems for application developers. They just raised $80M they don't even need and they're poised to solve boring problems like object storage, and less boring things like building for the AI era.
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- 0:00 This week on The Changelog
- 1:12 Sponsor: Retool
- 3:58 Start the show!
- 11:15 Imminent threat, but not facing Goliath
- 18:36 Two pizza teams
- 23:08 Legacy cloud vs complex cloud
- 27:18 Being in it together
- 30:20 Focused on solving problems and growing revenue
- 32:35 Sponsor: Sentry
- 34:39 Reinventing your job over and over
- 44:32 Playing with AI via a gaming PC
- 53:16 Spending $20M on GPUs
- 54:36 Building a retry world
- 58:58 Friendly neighborhood CEO
- 1:00:19 Did you need the $80M?
- 1:15:54 Sponsor: Temporal
- 1:17:58 Where do you go from here?
- 1:23:01 Examining the Render org chart
- 1:31:59 How deep shoudl we go?
- 1:38:00 Enjoying that series C legitimacy
- 1:42:01 The better new heroku?
- 1:44:32 The cloud is BIG and there's lots of room
- 1:47:09 Giving application developers what they want
- 1:48:44 Wrapping up
- 1:49:35 Closing thoughts and stuff
- 1:51:40 ++ Teaser
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