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Re: Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)

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Post by burnerRhodov3 » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 5:30 PM UTC

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From a 2024 interview: > In this episode, we sit down with Jessie Frazelle, CEO and co-founder of Zoo, a company working on innovative software and hardware technology. Jessie shares her fascinating journey, from getting her start at digital agencies to working at tech giants like Google and Microsoft and ultimately co-founding her own successful startup, Zoo. * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MkDJMiB_8U > Zoo makes…

Zoo really snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. They got so many things about CAD right (new kernel, solid UI, programmatic language with either graphical or text editing) then they went and did this extremely online-only/SaaS model where they're rendering and streaming the 3D from their cloud. And last time I checked your design files live on their cloud. That's just not an acceptable modality of software for c…

I'd find they'd be useful for prototyping, even though you lose revision history when you switch over to 360/catia w/e you use but it'd be finite enough where you could "restart".

Re: Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)

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Post by calvinmorrison » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 12:57 AM UTC

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He became CTO in 2014. I was familiar with him at Joyent some years before that though. edit/update: and the Samsung acquisition was in 2016. So I'd hope the CTO would have _some_ involvement in that decision.

This all became pretty personal over here! To answer these questions (or accusations?): Yes, I was at Joyent for the acquisition by Samsung -- but I also was not a founder, did not have a board seat, etc., so the involvement that I had, while substantial at some level (working with the Samsung team when they were doing their significant due diligence, for example) was also ultimately limited. My job was to make the a…

I used 'sellout' somewhat facetiously but as a former Triton/SmartOS user, what was Samsungs interest in Joyent?

Re: Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)

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Post by throwaway2037 » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 7:45 AM UTC

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> They don’t sell to SaaS companies. Is this true? If so, how do you know? I have listened to almost of their podcasts. I don't recall them saying there are any type of customer they refuse to sell to. They told a funny story about a sales call with a US national laboratory. They went into the call assuming they would be asking for supercomputer. Instead, they learned they need a bunch of regular rack compute, not al…

More like the rack isn't viable for SaaS.

Do you have any evidence for this claim? Or, can you explain why it isn't viable for SaaS?