Oxide Computer Company

What's the monthly cost of running these instances in your public cloud provider? Now scale that up with another few thousands instances. Maybe it's time to consider owning your cloud instead.

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It's great to see Steve Vassallo pay tribute to the extraordinary Pierre Lamond, and he gets it absolutely right: Pierre's fearlessness is a hallmark. We at Oxide Computer Company were privileged to have Pierre as a founding member of our board. That Pierre's courage is legendary became obvious when we were raising our Seed. We had Pierre and Eclipse on board -- and we were filling out the round with some smaller institutional checks and some large angel investors. One such potential angel investor heard that Pierre was investing and was interested. I went down to this investor's (lovely!) home in Palo Alto. A fellow Frenchman, he had known Pierre for many decades. I talked about our vision for Oxide and about the investment from Eclipse. "How is Pierre?" the investor asked. I confided in the investor that I felt what I know many in Silicon Valley have felt before me: that I held Pierre in highest regard but that I was frankly a little afraid of him. "Yes," he said, slowly nodding and pointing at me, "you are afraid of Pierre." "I," he continued, pointing back at himself, "I, too am afraid of Pierre!" "But Pierre?" he said, becoming animated, "Pierre is afraid of NOTHING -- and THAT is why he is the perfect investor for you!" The angel investor did indeed invest, and he was right on both counts: Pierre was (and is!) afraid of nothing -- and he was perfect for us. Steve Tuck and I have countless anecdotes of Pierre's courage in the years since -- of times that Pierre was steely when others lost their nerve -- but the one that will stick out for both of us was the SVB failure in March, 2023. We -- like many! -- were entirely banked with SVB, and it was clear that there was a run on the bank. No bank can survive a run, and many VCs were advising their firms to move all of their funds out of SVB. Pierre's advice to us was four words that served as a stark contrast: "No panic moves, please." We didn't move -- and nor, it should be said, did the startups who were advised by their VCs to pull funds (funds were already unavailable!). Pierre had been right: SVB was made whole (and we were able to wire payroll on Tuesday!). Running a startup is to move from crisis to crisis -- especially in hard tech -- and courage is essential. In the (many!) crises that Oxide has endured since, Steve and I have often repeated Pierre's wisdom to one another: no panic moves, please!

We’re excited to welcome Justin Baum to Oxide Computer! Justin brings 15 years of experience solving business challenges around application performance and data security for large Enterprises. He has directly seen the dichotomy organizations face today between the elasticity and modernity of cloud computing vs the control and sovereignty of owning and managing infrastructure. Justin is joining Oxide because he believes that for organizations to thrive in the AI era they will need the benefits of cloud computing with the security and control their business demands. He looks forward to enabling some of the largest companies in Silicon Valley to new heights with Oxide! Oxide Computer Company Justin Baum

We work very close to the metal, and it's always great to chat with other folks who deal with all the ways that atoms and bits interact. Rain and Oxide Computer Company have thought longer and harder about these problems than most people on the planet, and here they are in conversation with our infrastructure lead, Justin Moore. Links below.