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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 kijin »

mcmcmc wrote: post #81
drakenot wrote: post #24

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I think its the end-to-end, integrated nature of it. API driven, have "elastic resources", etc, etc. Rather than bolting together various solutions you get to have a "Cloud-like" stack in your own datacenter.

Yep, it’s basically slick hyperconverged infrastructure that you can buy a rack at a time without a subscription license.

Do you get updates to the proprietary software stack if you go without a subscription license?

If the answer is no, then you might own the hardware on paper, but you don't control any of the software that makes said hardware useful.

If the answer is yes, on the other hand, then one must ask who is paying for those updates, because that can't be sustainable.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by Aurornis »

zozbot234 wrote: post #88
Aurornis wrote: post #71

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Unfortunately you have to read further down in the specs to see the actual hardware details. They’re on older generation hardware, so going by cores and RAM alone isn’t enough to tell you about the speed of those cores and the DDR4 RAM. Hopefully raising money helps them iterate faster on their hardware so they’re not so far behind.

DDR4 is the right choice in this day and age, if they had gone with DDR5 it would have doubled the cost for the whole rack. Looking forward to the discounted DDR3 Opteron-based option.

DDR4 is not being manufactured at scale any more so it’s becoming very expensive too.

> if they had gone with DDR5 it would have doubled

They charge a premium for their hardware due to the software. They have plenty of room for RAM price fluctuations. It would nowhere near double the price.

> Looking forward to the discounted DDR3 Opteron-based option.

I know you’re joking, but anything DDR3 based is really slow and power inefficient relative to current gen hardware.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by spamizbad »

I'll say: You made the right call striking while the iron is hot. My employer did one of those "Didn't need to but did it anyway" rounds and it was critical for a successful exit that came years later.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by throw0101a »

dylanowen wrote: post #30
bflesch wrote: post #19

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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 .

I've seen Bryan Cantrill present at a few conferences and his talks are always the best.

A recent one (2025q4) he gave at Jane Street, "Andreessen’s Folly - The False Dichotomy of Software and Hardware":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0JjG0Qfwi8

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by 999900000999 »

gedy wrote: post #84
999900000999 wrote: post #67

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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…

> Concerns that should have been handled in the initial call, somehow get pushed back till after I've wasted monumental amount of time. Honestly these "reasons" they give are usually BS excuses when it basically amounts to they don't like your personality or looks.

Did I mention no one told me what the compensation package was at any point during the process.

It's a contractor life for me, I work for money, not "purpose" or anything else.

Hell my Facebook (technically a fully owned subsidiary to be fair) interview loop was easier. I didn't get the job that time either, but at least it was straight up.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by jcgrillo »

muvlon wrote: post #105
jjice wrote: post #25

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Oxide and Friends is the only computing podcast I listen to anymore. It's a bunch of fun and they have insights I actually value. The original On The Metal podcast they did is incredible too. The interviews they had with computing legends are just fantastic.

I used to enjoy it much more before it became just another podcast extoiling the virtues of AI-assisted coding. I have too many of those already.

I appreciate their treatment of the current AI boom cycle. Just last night they had Evan Ratliff on from the Shell Game podcast[1], and it was a great episode. They're not breathlessly hyping AI and trying to make a quick buck off it, instead it seems they're taking an honest, rigorous look at it (which is sadly pretty rare) and talking about the successes as well as the failures. Personally I don't always agree with their takes, I'm more firmly in Ed Zitron's camp that this is all a massive financial scam, isn't really good for much, and will do a lot more harm than good in the long run. They're less negatively biased than that, which is fine.

[1] https://www.shellgame.co/

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by panick21_ »

robszumski wrote: post #43
Graziano_M wrote: post #20

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Is Jessie Frazelle still there? She is very impressive.

no, but still being super impressive. CEO of a company rebuilding a CAD rendering engine because they put an LLM on top of it. So you describe the mechanical specs of the part you want and it models it. Takes all the tedium out of modeling stuff. Super cool and many applications.

They had to do CAD while working on Oxide and realized that it sucked. So she went off to solve that.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by moregrist »

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 really tried to like the podcast. It’s been a few years, so maybe it’s improved.

The topics were good. The guests were great.

But Bryan Cantrill was just terrible at letting his guests actually talk.

Bryan, if you’re listening, please let your guests talk. We have a large amount of content on YouTube if we want to hear the Bryan Cantrill take on, well, anything and everything. And it’s often amusing and sometimes right.

People don’t tune in to a podcast with guests to hear the host pontificate. They tune in to hear the guest, and sometimes the guest/host dynamic. When the host talks over the guest, you don’t get either.

After the Jonathon Blow episode, I gave up. Dude had interesting things to say about C, C++, and Rust, but most of what we got was Bryan talking about Rust. I guarantee anyone tuning into the Oxide podcast knows Bryan Cantrill’s opinions about Rust. And firmware. And Oracle. And Linux. Etc. etc.

Let your guests talk.

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