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Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by oconnor663 »

shimman wrote: post #33
bflesch wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you name some people who are working there and who you look up to? I need some new idols after the old idols all went up in MAGA and Epstein files .

Well one, don't look up to people you personally don't know. Parasocial relationships are not healthy. Look into your local community for people to be mentors or help you. That said I like Bryan Cantrill as an engineer and leader, but I would never put him on a pedestal.

On the other hand, it's normal to have heroes, and to need to have them.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by akshitgaur2005 »

sudomateo wrote: post #80
greatgib wrote: post #44

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The website looks good but it is very hard to know what they do exactly and what they sell, if you can be their customer or not just browsing the website. If you don't know them before. Like do they sell a service or a product. Do they sell hardware, software or something else? it is very confusing.

We're working on making this easier to understand. Stay tuned! We know the last decade or so of using public cloud providers has made people forget that hardware and software are things you can own and run successfully. Oxide is exactly that. Hardware and software designed together to give you the public cloud experience on-premises. Disclaimer: I work at Oxide.

I'm the undergrad who commented earlier. I’ve been poking around the Hubris source code and it’s exactly the kind of stack I want to work on. I'm actually doing the Redox Summer of Code this year, focused on implementing an EEVDF scheduler and a performance testing harness for the kernel.

From the inside, is Oxide a place where a fresh grad can actually be useful? Or is the "complexity floor" of hardware/software co-design so high that you really just need a few decades of experience to be effective? I'd love a reality check on whether I should keep Oxide as a long-term 10-year goal or if there’s a path for people starting out.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by mohn »

IshKebab wrote: post #102
bsaul wrote: post #79

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After a recent experience with flat structures, i tend to be really suspicious. My experience was a total mess of organization, with slack bipping all the time, and nobody "in charge" of maintaining common sense in the architecture, with a long term vision. Total chaos.

Yeah there's a famous essay "The tyranny of structurelessness" or something like that. The TL;DR is that there is always a power hierarchy. If there isn't a formal one that just means there's an informal one which is usually much worse.

Good recollection of the title! Looks like it's from 1970 and written by Jo Freeman[0]. This subthread is also reminding me of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"[1], which I didn't realize had expanded beyond the original essay into a book.

[0] https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Free...

[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by [deleted] »

colesantiago wrote: post #110
neom wrote: post #73

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How could a massively capex business like Oxide scale in the same manner that Valve did based on the current market movement of the industry that Oxide is addressing? I personally cannot see how that is at all possible. The cash required to back downstream capital in a business like this as it scales without it falling flat is surly well in excess of $6/700MM, if they manage to get by with with only selling 300/400 m…

Unfortunately since they already took VC money they have to keep doing it and each time they do it they do it the VCs would own more and more and would control the business. I predict in less than 10 years Oxide exits by way of being acquired or an IPO. The enshittification would have already begun by then. > You seem very sure of yourself in how business works! I'm curious now, how did you create your $100MM++ reven…

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Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by fulafel »

bri3d wrote: post #57
wasmainiac wrote: post #6

Could someone explains to me what the secret is here? Apart from the fancy marketing, is it the full integration? The hardware? It took me a while to find an actual picture of one of the modules.

They’re players in a newish market segment called “hyperconverged,” basically “you buy a rack and it runs your workload, you don’t worry about individual systems/interconnect/networking etc because we handled it.” Oxide seem to be the best and most thorough in their space because they have chosen to own the stack from the firmware upwards. For someone who cares in that dimension they are a clear leader already on tha…

So a bit like SeaMicro in the 00's but with more software?

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by sevensor »

999900000999 wrote: post #67
shimman wrote: post #7

Oxide is the only company where I check the careers page hoping that they have a position which I can apply to. Happy to see their success. Especially so if you've been following their journey through their podcasts (easily the best tech podcast out there if you care about your craft; no filler, all killer).

I actually did apply, The mere application takes hours upon hours, and for what a generic rejection email. This isn't the worst though, I recently went through an interview with another startup company, and after six interviews and a take-home project I found myself getting the same generic rejection. The CEO went out of his way to tell me he didn't like my resume since I've had to hop around a little bit to stay emp…

A generic rejection is more than I got for feedback; I never heard back. Still, I thought the process of writing the materials was great. I don’t usually take the time to think about the arc of my experience in a holistic way. Do it for yourself if you do it at all; don’t go into it with high expectations for feedback and you won’t be disappointed.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by drewbailey »

Congratulations to the team. Oxide & Friends, Bryan, Adam & Team are such a valuable resource to our community. Their podcast is amazing, the problems they encounter, and their willingness to share with the rest of us is not taken for granted!

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by dagi3d »

yla92 wrote: post #93

Has anyone purchased/enquired about an Oxide rack or currently running one ? any info on pricing ?

I just talk about some comments I read some time ago, so take this with a grain of salt. It was my understanding that if you were spending about $300k-$500k a year in cloud services, it would make sense this type of solution, so the expected price would be something between $500k-$1M depending on the configuration
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