DOCN. Anyone know the date?
DigitalOcean S-1
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Re: DigitalOcean S-1
#202I used Nanobox quite heavily before DO bought them.
But was a bit surprised when I saw the below, does this mean that they only payed $3,544 for the company? Or is there more to it than that?
> On April 4, 2019, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding equity of Nanobox, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Nanobox”), a deployment and management platform provider for cloud infrastructure. The final purchase price for Nanobox was $3,544 and the acquisition has been accounted for as a business combination.
Re: DigitalOcean S-1
#203Should I disclose this? Well, why not?
I interviewed at DO a few years ago. I don't want to share the details, but it was the most annoying, unprofessional and disorganized set of interviews that I have ever witnessed in my life (I did ~140-150 interviews in my life for ~25 companies). The best part is that I was introduced to the company by one of their board members.
Since then I kept thinking that I really liked the product, but I would expect them to fail as a company.
Maybe DO's IPO proves that I was wrong, or maybe that they will be economically successful despite what I have witnessed.
Re: DigitalOcean S-1
#204Should I disclose this? Well, why not? I interviewed at DO a few years ago. I don't want to share the details, but it was the most annoying, unprofessional and disorganized set of interviews that I have ever witnessed in my life (I did ~140-150 interviews in my life for ~25 companies). The best part is that I was introduced to the company by one of their board members. Since then I kept thinking that I really liked t…
Disclose what? There’s no actionable details there.
Re: DigitalOcean S-1
#205I used Nanobox quite heavily before DO bought them. But was a bit surprised when I saw the below, does this mean that they only payed $3,544 for the company? Or is there more to it than that? > On April 4, 2019, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding equity of Nanobox, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Nanobox”), a deployment and management platform provider for cloud infrastructure. The final purchase price for N…
It’s in thousands - $3.5mm
Re: DigitalOcean S-1
#206The biggest threat to DigitalOcean is that AWS, Google, and Microsoft are all going vertical by designing and manufacturing their own chips. Over times they'll be able to get hardware for cheaper, and also more specialized hardware that uses less power. DigitalOcean will have to buy CPUs from Intel or Nvidia/ARM at a higher cost, and eventually maybe even from AWS or Microsoft, essentially giving money to their compe…
I think there's a lot of doubt whether, in the long run, doing your own hardware makes sense for a cloud provider.
If you work yourself into a performance dead-end, you can spend billions and end up with a chip that isn't particularly competitive. Whereas if your supplier does that, you can switch suppliers.
You could spend $X billion, end up with a chip that isn't particularly competitive and just have to eat those billions.
You bring up airlines... airlines don't build their own airplanes.
Re: DigitalOcean S-1
#207I just cannot fathom why people would use a tier 2 cloud provider over AWS or GCP. It can't possibly be significantly cheaper. The tooling is non-existent. There is little third party tutorials/documentation compared to tier 1.
Why would anyone buy this?
Re: DigitalOcean S-1
#208The biggest threat to DigitalOcean is that AWS, Google, and Microsoft are all going vertical by designing and manufacturing their own chips. Over times they'll be able to get hardware for cheaper, and also more specialized hardware that uses less power. DigitalOcean will have to buy CPUs from Intel or Nvidia/ARM at a higher cost, and eventually maybe even from AWS or Microsoft, essentially giving money to their compe…
Interesting theory, maybe DO should partner with Apple.
Re: DigitalOcean S-1
#209I used Nanobox quite heavily before DO bought them. But was a bit surprised when I saw the below, does this mean that they only payed $3,544 for the company? Or is there more to it than that? > On April 4, 2019, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding equity of Nanobox, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Nanobox”), a deployment and management platform provider for cloud infrastructure. The final purchase price for N…
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Re: DigitalOcean S-1
#210I used Nanobox quite heavily before DO bought them. But was a bit surprised when I saw the below, does this mean that they only payed $3,544 for the company? Or is there more to it than that? > On April 4, 2019, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding equity of Nanobox, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Nanobox”), a deployment and management platform provider for cloud infrastructure. The final purchase price for N…
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