Ben Uretsky

Ben Uretsky is the cofounder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of DigitalOcean, a cloud infrastructure provider.[1]

In 2003 Uretsky founded his first company ServerStack, a managed hosting provider, with his brother Moisey Uretsky. The company was a precursor to DigitalOcean.[2][3] Prior to starting ServerStack, Uretsky worked for another managed hosting company called Like Whoa.[4][2]

In 2011, Uretsky founded DigitalOcean with his brother and another cofounder, Mitch Wainer.[5] In 2012, Uretsky and the other cofounders graduated from the Techstars incubator program in Boulder, Colorado.[6][7] They launched the first version of DigitalOcean’s product the same year.[8]

In June 2018, Uretsky stepped down as CEO of DigitalOcean and was succeeded by former Citrix CEO Mark Templeton. He remained on the company’s board.[1]

Uretsky’s family immigrated to the U.S. from Russia when he was five. He grew up in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn and attended Stuyvesant High School.[2][9]

References
  1. Novet, Jordan (2018-06-20). "DigitalOcean new CEO: Former Citrix chief Mark Templeton". www.cnbc.com. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  2. Metz, Cade (2015-05-06). "Amazon Isn't the Only One Killing It With Cloud Computing". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  3. "An interview with Ben Uretsky and Julia Austin, CEO and CTO of DigitalOcean – Increment: Cloud". increment.com. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  4. Reich, Dan. "Startup CEO: Ben Uretsky on Launching Digital Ocean, Raising Money And Joining TechStars". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  5. Hamilton, David (6 September 2013). "DigitalOcean: The Startup that's Shaking Up Web Hosting". The Whir. Archived from the original on 2 June 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  6. Templeton, Mark (21 June 2018). "DigitalOcean taps Citrix Systems vet to be new CEO". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  7. "Digital Ocean's Journey From TechStars Reject To Cloud-Hosting Darling". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  8. Chernova, Yuliya (2014-03-07). "Before Meeting Andreessen Horowitz, DigitalOcean Met Lots of Blank Stares". WSJ. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  9. Whitehouse, Kaja (2014-03-06). "NY's latest star startup lands $37.2M to grow firm". New York Post. Retrieved 2018-12-12.


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