Title: Not too long ago DO was touted as the #2 cloud behind Amazon [1]. I&#x27;ll grant that was always a little suspect but it really seems like things have gone off the rails in recent years:<p>- in 2016 Moisey Uretskey literally Q&amp;Aing on &quot;What happened to DigitalOcean?&quot; on Quora [2]<p>- in 2018 Ben Uretskey handing off to Mark Templeton [3]<p>- in 2019 replaced by Yancey Spruill [4]<p>- in 2020 laying off 10% of the company [5]<p>How do you go from one of the most hyped IaaS companies to suddenly losing steam? If it worked for them from 10m - 100m ARR, how do they lose steam from 200-275m? Its not like the market for their stuff is that small, Azure and even GCP have proved that. I&#x27;d love for some perspectives from people who know this market, because it&#x27;s baffling to me.<p>1: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a16z.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;06&#x2F;a16z-podcast-what-software-developers-and-therefore-every-company-need-2&#x2F;<p>2: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;What-happened-to-DigitalOcean<p>3: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.digitalocean.com&#x2F;the-next-wave-digitaloceans-new-ceo&#x2F;<p>4: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;07&#x2F;30&#x2F;digitalocean-gets-a-new-ceo-and-cfo&#x2F;<p>5: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;17&#x2F;digitalocean-layoffs&#x2F;
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