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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 Aurornis »

db48x wrote: post #59
greatgib wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I think https://oxide.computer/product/specifications makes it pretty clear: Compute Sleds (Total) 16, 24, or 32 CPU Cores 1024–2048 Memory (DRAM) 8–32 TiB Storage 465.75–931.5 TiB Network Switches 2 Switching Capacity 12.8 Tbit/s Power Shelves Up to 2 Power Supplies per Shelf 6 (5+1 or 3+3) Typical / Max Power Draw 12 / 15 kW Dimensions H × W × D 2354mm (92.7”) × 600mm (23.7”) × 1060mm (41.8”) Weight Up to ~2,518 lb…

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.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by newsclues »

jjice wrote: post #25
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).

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 love the new podcast but miss on the metal so much. It should be quarterly at least

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by neom »

colesantiago wrote: post #47

I'm confused and saddened on why Oxide has to keep raising money (in substitute for growth) and keep entrenching their business with VCs and letting them control business and ownership. > "So if we didn’t need to raise, why seek the capital? Well, we weren’t seeking it, really. But our investors, seeing the business take off, were eager to support it." From this of course the VCs will back and support Oxide (they are…

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 million of equity, that will be a great outcome for the founders.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by pcl »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Oh cool! That looks like a super interesting product.

https://zoo.dev

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by maeln »

voidUpdate wrote: post #18

I'm confused what their product is... "The cloud you own"? Isn't that just... a server? Sure, it looks like a very nice server, but is there anything special about it apart from that?

It's more than a server, it's the whole rack with networking and all that, integrated and with unified management.

There is some company who for reason X and Y rather (or are obligated to) do on-prem for their hosting needs. But setting up a full (or several) racks, with all the required equipment for proper networking, storage, etc, can be quite the hassle. And if you want cloud-like functionality (completely API manageable virtual network, VM, storage pools, ...) it's another can of worm. Having a "plug'n'play" cloud-like system on-prem that do not require several engineers who know 10's of different vendors tech is definitely worth the premium for those company.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by grim_io »

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…

You're not changing the world either way, you would just be working for a more demanding guy. Fuck em.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by newsclues »

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.

Owning instead of renting, for cost and control, without giving up the benefits of the cloud.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by bsaul »

akshitgaur2005 wrote: post #3

I just came to know about Oxide the other day, and god damn if it is not a dream workplace! High salary, flat structure, a large open-source presence, and maybe much more! Their blogs are really good too. I am an undergraduate right now and looking at the people working there, it doesn't seem likely they would hire a fresh grad, I think I have found the yardstick I am going to measure myself by going forward, "Am I s…

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.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by sudomateo »

greatgib wrote: post #44
bflesch wrote: post #17

Their website is so nice and smooth even on my shitty computer, not like the other announcement pages of major companies that only work on state of the art macbooks.

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.

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