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Our $100M Series B

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Re: Our $100M Series B

#11
great people and vision, but the hardware market went apoplectic for GPUs at scale just as they were pushing a better way to manage VMs

in the midst of everyone making a land grab for GB200s, does anyone have time to evaluate their alternative OS?

Re: Our $100M Series B

#12

Anyone here using oxide hardware? I remember reading their blog post when they were spinning up and it seems like they have actual products now.

They have for a while already, see https://oxide.computer/blog/the-cloud-computer (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38023891).

Re: Our $100M Series B

#13
Everyone at Oxide makes the same salary:

>We decided to do something outlandishly simple: take the salary that Steve, Jess, and I were going to pay ourselves, and pay that to everyone. [https://oxide.computer/blog/compensation-as-a-reflection-of-...]

Does everyone at Oxide have the same equity grant?

Re: Our $100M Series B

#14
post #5

Always refreshing to see people who actually believe in software freedoms (and not just doing open source cosplay like many big corporations) forge a pathway to big success. There are many things that suggest free software and the movement for software freedoms might be on its way to a historical footnote. This is absolutely not one of them. Hey Bryan, one day when you’re very successful market-wise (you and your tea…

The term "open source" was created by corporations in opposition to "free software", as a watered-down version of the latter. Open source itself is already free software cosplay.

Re: Our $100M Series B

#15
Congratulations on the achievement.

It is always a pleasure to follow up with Oxide on their podcast, their technological decision to keep the Solaris linage alive, all the places across the infrastructure they have been using Go and Rust as well.

Re: Our $100M Series B

#16
post #6

All the best! I personally came to know Oxide for their cool RFD culture. It's worth a read: https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/ Start from RFD 1 ;)

I love the idea. RFD 1 mentions taking inspiration from Golang and Rust proposal processes. The Haskell Foundation also uses the same proposal process, and I love it.

I'm a big proponent of the "writing is thinking" mantra. Unfortunately, in my experience, not all technical leaders value grassroots proposal processes like the Oxide RFDs

Re: Our $100M Series B

#17
post #6

All the best! I personally came to know Oxide for their cool RFD culture. It's worth a read: https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/ Start from RFD 1 ;)

Just because it's hopelessly on-brand for us to offer up a podcast episode for everything, you may also be interested in our Oxide and Friends episode on RFDs with our colleagues Robert Mustacchi, David Crespo, Ben Leonard, and Augustus Mayo.[0]

[0] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/rfds-the-ba...

Re: Our $100M Series B

#19
post #13

Everyone at Oxide makes the same salary: >We decided to do something outlandishly simple: take the salary that Steve, Jess, and I were going to pay ourselves, and pay that to everyone. [ https://oxide.computer/blog/compensation-as-a-reflection-of-... ] Does everyone at Oxide have the same equity grant?

That would be even more outlandish, I don't think that's possible.

Re: Our $100M Series B

#20
post #13

Everyone at Oxide makes the same salary: >We decided to do something outlandishly simple: take the salary that Steve, Jess, and I were going to pay ourselves, and pay that to everyone. [ https://oxide.computer/blog/compensation-as-a-reflection-of-... ] Does everyone at Oxide have the same equity grant?

They have since updated it slightly

> Since originally writing this blog entry in 2021, we have increased our salary a few times, and it now stands at $207,264. We have also added some sales positions that have variable compensation, consisting of a lower base salary and a commission component.

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