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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 kjellsbells »

sergiotapia wrote: post #297
cmdrk wrote: post #226

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> too expensive for our internal server needs; not the right fit for our datacenter partners/customers You and me both. They're doing neat stuff, but I wonder how many other potential customers feel that way too. What is Oxide's market? It feels a bit like advanced alien technology that is ultimately a little too weird and expensive for most enterprises to adopt.

I always thought a company like Railway would be an Oxide customer. But Railway is building their own servers in their own datacenters. So I am really curious who is small enough to buy Oxide, but large enough to need Oxide?

The same sorts of customers that SGI used to sell to in the pre-cloud era. DoD. Oil and gas. Finance.

People with deep pockets and good reasons to want to keep certain parts of their infra very close to home. Also the kind of people that expect very highly skilled people to show up and get their in-house app running.

(I was an SGI HPC customer once. I still miss the old SGI. Sigh.)

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Post by emmelaich »

999900000999 wrote: post #222
woooooo wrote: post #197

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If they heard from the CEO specifically, it was probably based on the CEO vibe checking the resume as a last step after passing the entire interview process. The CEO may have spent 15 minutes on it.

It was actually a round with the CEO. I don't feel disrespected or anything, just feels weird to spend that much time interviewing someone.

I would take that very positively actually. At least you got feedback, and from the CEO! It seems to be you performed pretty well! Maybe the 'hopping' was the only distinguishing thing between you and the one that succeeded.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by emmelaich »

WD-42 wrote: post #235
999900000999 wrote: post #185

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This is my favorite response in the thread. We aren't talking about getting a job at doctors across borders or something, we just want to manipulate bits of silicon to increase our networth.

When you say "we aren't" I hope you realize you aren't speaking for everyone. Even doctors across borders probably needs an IT person. There are jobs available for less pay that are fulfilling in other ways. I know I have taken them and am better off for it.

Aside, there is a tech equivalent of MSF: Télécoms Sans Frontières

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9l%C3%A9coms_Sans_Fronti...

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by FireBeyond »

wmf wrote: post #241
FireBeyond wrote: post #232

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I worked at Red Hat a few years ago... early 2020s. For our customers, something like 80% of our RHEL customers were still on-prem. Yes, cloud is huge, etc. But there's a very big iceberg of on-prem.

Because cloud customers don't pay for Linux and they use Ubuntu.

Because when customers go from on-prem to cloud they throw away their distro tooling and support needs? I get it, I've worked at plenty of small and large cloud-native places, but saying "All you are selling to is on-prem deployments for old(er) school workloads, which to me is a shrinking market to begin with." you're not at all accurate. Or if it is shrinking, it is still a huge market, likely a much larger market than you think.

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Post by UltraSane »

abrookewood wrote: post #296
UltraSane wrote: post #275

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how does it compare to Nutanix?

Of topic, but where the hell did Nutanix come from? I've never heard of them until recently and all of a sudden, they are being marketed as a serious competitor to VMware etc.

They have been around for a long time and were one of the first to have a hyper-converged solution where all storage in the nodes is pooled and usable by any node. They also have their own hypervisor. You can get 4 nodes per 2U so pretty dense. In the datacenter my company uses a company had dozens of Nutanix boxes sitting in the hallway for months before they finally installed them. They are pretty notoriously expensive so only really used by companies with big IT budgets.

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Post by keepamovin »

999900000999 wrote: post #146
pfraze wrote: post #134

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If you went through multiple rounds it likely means they were seriously considering you but ultimately they didn’t get to a yes. If it’s any comfort that means you did pretty well. The short stints on a resume is likely not the only reason you didn’t get to 100%, but unfortunately you should know that it’s seen as a pretty bad signal. The general expectation is 2 years minimum at a gig. If you have multiple short non…

Okay, but if my resume is a concern let's talk about in the first interview. I can't exactly rest and vest for 2 years when the company is running out of money. I had the bad luck of this happening 3 times in a row. Company A got their funding pulled and shut down. Company B, where I was actually at for about a year and a half, switched owners and shutdown my entire office. Company C merged into it's main competitor…

It probably doesn't work like that tho - they don't know how much of a concern it is. And maybe CEO doesn't see resume until later in process, raises an objection.

That said, the general lack of emapthy from recruiting towards time invested and rejections is astonishing and seemingly cruel or emotionally negligent.

US corps are constrained I think by what they can reveal about denial reasons because they don't want to get sued for discrimination.

That said, it can often feel like, you were kept in the pool as an alt/negotiating foil if they didn't get their first pick, or needed to say "we have another candidate willing to take $YOUR_ASK-$BIG_DELTA.

I think we should approach the hiring gauntlet not as "workshop to see what it's like to work with these folks" but as "battle where we can divine the worst about the people we might choose to work with", but still remain sunny and positive while cannily noting any weirdness.

Hope that helps! :)

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Post by AceJohnny2 »

akerl_ wrote: post #269
AceJohnny2 wrote: post #244

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I don't buy it. Seems like a waste of everyone's time. Even if you don't respect the candidate's time, it's still a waste of the employee's time, which is valuable to the company.

It’s going to blow your mind that many processes at many businesses are horribly inefficient and waste buckets of human time.

argh, don't remind me.

Certainly we have lots of horrible inefficiencies in my team, but stringing along hiring was not one of them. I understand this is not universal even at our company.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by abrookewood »

UltraSane wrote: post #305
abrookewood wrote: post #296

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Of topic, but where the hell did Nutanix come from? I've never heard of them until recently and all of a sudden, they are being marketed as a serious competitor to VMware etc.

They have been around for a long time and were one of the first to have a hyper-converged solution where all storage in the nodes is pooled and usable by any node. They also have their own hypervisor. You can get 4 nodes per 2U so pretty dense. In the datacenter my company uses a company had dozens of Nutanix boxes sitting in the hallway for months before they finally installed them. They are pretty notoriously expen…

OK, must be one of those weird things where I just never noticed them. Super strange because I've been very aware of this space for decades.
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