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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 months

Vantage team onsite 2024 📈

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

6 years

Okay this insane. A pilot on the plane in front of us just went rogue and took off on an empty plane bypassing orders from the tower. The tower ordered a full stop and they’re trying to communicate with that pilot. Whaaaaaat!

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

6 years

Halfway down the runway on Alaska airlines out of Seattle and the pilot slams on the brakes and shares we must go back to the gate. Quite a scary experience. Not entirely sure what’s happening. Someone sneak on board?

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

👀 From the latest Pinterest filing. Wild.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

6 years

“He has flown out to the Olympic peninsula. Military aircraft is on scene and trying to talk him down” WHAT!

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

6 years

People occasionally ask me what the line is for full yolo and too far yolo and I think the other pilot definitely has qualified a new “too far yolo” example.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

6 years

My phone is about to run out of battery but everyone is fine and just chilling inside the terminal trying to figure out if we can get on a flight out. This is also the most notifications I’ve ever received - twitter goes hard. Hopefully I’ll make it to my buddy’s wedding tomorrow

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

6 years

While I’m here: Disney plane looks legit.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

6 years

“Full ground stop at Seattle airport as we find out what the pilot is doing in the air with the plane taken from the hanger”

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

6 years

Getting off the plane on the tar mat. Can’t believe this is happening

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

6 years

Flights are being diverted to Portland. Still a full ground stop at Seattle airport.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

6 years

@laura_mitchler 👋🏻 from 19A.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

6 years

We just got told we have to de plane and get into the terminal now.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

2 years

Oh my god it’s happening. Lower Manhattan drip coffee at $2.75. Keep raising the rates!

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

Just did a 7 mile hike and at the top a couple arrived, the dude hands me the camera to “take a picture” and the phone is in video mode and he shows me a ring box…witnessed a proposal in the middle of no where and have never had so much pressure to film something ever. View:

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

Today I'm excited to share that has raised $4M led by @a16z to help companies manage their cloud costs. Also in this round are @briannekimmel , @julialipton , @she_travels , @calvinfo , @jeff_weinstein , @benuretsky , @moiseyuretsky , @itunpredictable + more!

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

6 months

RIP free speech.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

2 years

Today I’m thrilled to share that @JoinVantage has raised a $21M Series A led by @scalevp with participation from @a16z , Harpoon Ventures and @eastdakota !

Vantage Announces $21M Series A

Vantage raises a $21M Series A to help companies manage and optimize their cloud infrastructure costs.

www.vantage.sh

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

4 years

As of today I'm beginning full time on something new: , an intuitively designed and simple to use alternative to the AWS console that saves customers time and money. If you're an AWS customer who expects more from your cloud console please get in touch!

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

We're considering publishing some aggregated reports/data on AWS usage and adoption trends. Like this Tweet if you'd be interested in reading this and we can prioritize it if it seems to be of interest to folks.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

8 years

Upon reflection: I should have just stayed in the mountains.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

The more wild point: this deal averaged out (~$400M/year) represents less than 1% of AWS revenue based upon Q2 annualized run-rates 🙃

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

I just realized that AWS charges you for the API call to delete a CloudWatch dashboard. Remarkable.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

Fargate adoption is growing...really quickly.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

6 years

@feltgames Yeah we were halfway down the runway then slammed on the brakes. Pretty scary.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

6 years

@AlaskaAir Flight 322. Any details you could share would be great. Everyone on board is kind of wondering what’s up right now.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

7 months

Resurfacing this exchange from a few years ago...

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

10 years

Because there is nothing more social than Oculus. http://t.co/Ctv5h4kphx

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

4 years

This is truly a remarkable time we are living in.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

9 months

I now have a @mercury cutting board so I can think about corporate treasury yield even as I prepare dinner. All hail.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

11 years

. @twitter Super confidential, guys.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

4 years

Thanks @fredericl for the awesome TechCrunch coverage on @JoinVantage - excited to see us formally go live today after months of hard work from the team.

Vantage makes managing AWS easier | TechCrunch

Vantage, a new service that makes managing AWS resources and their associated spend easier, is coming out of stealth today. The service offers its users

techcrunch.com

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

1 year

This email still gets sent to every single Vantage user....which is now tens of thousands of people...and the responses are among the best learnings I get during the week:

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

2 years

Number of active AWS account connections to Vantage since the beginning. Normally don't share things like this publicly but making an exception 🙂

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

7 months

🎉 Excited to share that Vantage has passed 10,000 accounts! An account represents a single organization like a side-project, startup, or a Fortune 500 company. Awesome to see this kind of growth for a B2B SaaS product in about 3 years. Boom!

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

1 year

New user signups to Vantage per week. Our new normal steady state each week is about to eclipse our single best week ever for signups [which was our original launch week where we were #1 on HackerNews] Pretty cool and *a lot* of work behind this.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

5 months

Taking a weekend off in the countryside not thinking about cloud infrastructure for a bit when all of a sudden

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

11 months

👀 After R2, @Cloudflare keeps innovating on pricing! Check out this blog post on Workers vs Lambda to understand the impacts of their disruptive new pricing model 📷

Cloudflare Workers vs AWS Lambda with New Pricing from Cloudflare

Cloudflare's revamped pricing for Workers reveals a competitive edge.

www.vantage.sh

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

I am fairly certain this is an automated sales email and if so...well done.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

8 months

Three years of Vantage quarterly user registration numbers. Also no I'm not showing the Y axis :)

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

2 years

“We just want to have you talk to a few students”

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

🎉 One year down, many more to go.

Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

4 years

As of today I'm beginning full time on something new: , an intuitively designed and simple to use alternative to the AWS console that saves customers time and money. If you're an AWS customer who expects more from your cloud console please get in touch!

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

2 years

Emailed our AWS account manager with an issue and he is on a call with me within 4 minutes with how to get it sorted within an hour. Quick shout-out to my man, Jose.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

🚀 Today, @JoinVantage is sharing a gift for the holidays: saying farewell to "EC2-Other" in favor of more intuitive top-level cost categories

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

1 year

Ending the week closing another Fortune 500 customer. Very proud of the team and progress! 🥲

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

💸💸 We profiled a random sampling of 25,000 S3 Buckets to showcase "The Billion Dollar Opportunity" for Cloudflare R2 and its impact on AWS customers. Check out the blog post - with some pretty cool data 👉:

Profiling 25,000 S3 Buckets: The Billion Dollar Opportunity for Cloudflare R2

Cloudflare's recent announcement for their S3 competitor, cleverly named R2, has been a major point of discussion in the infrastructure community. While there has been a lot of chatter, Cloudflare R2...

www.vantage.sh

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

6 years

@feltgames All we heard is it was a horizon plane.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

10 months

The dream of becoming a park ranger has not died for the record 🙂 Thanks @mercury for sharing my/Vantage's story a bit more in detail!

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Growing up, @Bensign 's mom thought he was destined to become a park ranger. Today, he’s the CEO of @JoinVantage , a cloud cost transparency platform that secured a $21M Series A from investors like @scalevp & @a16z . Episode 5: Ben Schaechter, co-founder & CEO of Vantage 👇

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

5 years

Just walked by my running group that I’ve skipped out on for a while holding a burrito. A new level of shame I was unaware existed has been unlocked.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

2 years

👀

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

🚀 Today we're announcing the launch of - a set of guides and best practices that helps educate developers, engineering leaders and finance counterparts on the topic of managing cloud costs.

Vantage

@JoinVantage

3 years

Today we are announcing the launch of - an open source, community supported set of guides and best practices related to cloud costs. Read the full blog post here:

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

4 years

Been working pretty hard for a while and I think tomorrow will be cool.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

5 years

A woman just stopped me at Trader Joe’s because she thought I worked there and upon me clarifying I didn’t work there she got angry at me for “impersonating Trader Joe’s employees.” Totally.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

1 year

14 years ago when I lived in Nebraska and drove a 1988 Volkswagen van. Truly the glory days.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

Who is going to AWS re:Invent in person this year? I think I'm about to take the plunge on heading there.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

1 year

3 years!

Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

4 years

As of today I'm beginning full time on something new: , an intuitively designed and simple to use alternative to the AWS console that saves customers time and money. If you're an AWS customer who expects more from your cloud console please get in touch!

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

Food for thought: - AWS is growing 39% YoY on ~$64.4B of annualized revenue. - DigitalOcean is growing 35% YoY on ~$426M of annualized revenue. So AWS is growing by 10 DigitalOceans per year in terms of revenue.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

4 years

Well written and very cool post about earnings on Spotify:

Earning $800 / Month With Spotify — Steve Benjamins

I'm making over $800 per month with my music— almost exclusively through Spotify. This is up from $400 per month last year. I don't tour, I don't sell merch and I'm not on a major label. I'm just a...

stevebenjamins.com

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

2 years

Yikes…imitation is the best form of flattery…but these look like screen grabs. What’s up, @_cloudthread_ ? *Blatant* copying of our product, our designs and even our marketing copy 🙈

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

6 years

@QuinnPerkins14 All I request is two complimentary mini bottles of baileys.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

10 years ago today - working in a basement office in Palo Alto on my first startup. A lot has changed and a lot has stayed precisely the same.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

5 years

Quick update: While it wasn't an easy decision, I've decided next week will be my final week @awscloud and living in Seattle. I've learned more than I thought was possible about containers and will continue to cheer everyone on from the sidelines.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

2 years

DigitalOcean alumni reunion at the NYC AWS summit with @samkottler @joshviney

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

7 months

We happily sponsored Datadog's conference last year. Datadog also includes Vantage's logo on its own marketing prospectus for sponsorship. I suppose we're making progress as Datadog just informed us they aren't allowing us to sponsor this year for competitive reasons.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

2 years

It’s my 35th birthday and so far I’ve managed to order a cronut, obtain my free coffee from Starbucks and take a 2 hour nap. Being middle aged rocks.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

6 years

What's happening with $TSLA today is actually unprecedented and crazy. I'm still digesting what's actually happening. So insane.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

🚀 Excited to share this news publicly: @brookemckim has joined @JoinVantage as CTO. I'm so thrilled to be working with Brooke again and cannot wait to see how things develop with him on board:

Brooke McKim Joins Vantage as Chief Technology Officer

Today, Vantage announces that Brooke McKim has joined full time as Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer. Brooke joins Vantage after spending three years as Head of Product at Stae, a business...

www.vantage.sh

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

Just extended an offer to who will become the first employee of @JoinVantage - lets goooooooo!

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

6 years

@AlaskaAir We just got one. Kind of insane!

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

4 years

$AMZN hired 248,500 people last *quarter* which brings their total head count to.... 🤯 1,125,300 employees (Excluding contractors & temporary personnel)

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

8 years

It appears I have a new enemy.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

2 years

First time extending three offers in a single day - two in engineering and one in sales. Exciting!

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

2 years

👀

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

6 years

Today is my 31st birthday and for the first time in a while I am back in my prime. Heyoooooo. I'll be here all day guys.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

5 years

Got into my building elevator this morning with a family of four kids and the dad goes “well, what do we say everyone?” and in unison all four of the kids go “good morning, new guy!”

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

If only I knew a way.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

2 years

Weekly new user registrations for Vantage. We just had one of our best weeks ever in a typically seasonal quiet period. Very awesome.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

DigitalOcean - $DOCN - is now an $11B+ company. Interesting findings from their earnings: Capex as a percentage of revenue has gone from 44% to 24% in less than two years which is pretty impressive.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

2 years

Ending the week seeing an AWS customer spending millions per month in on-demand spend with no commitments.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

2 years

Getting prepped and ready for the new year 🙂 Q1 2021 cover slide Q1 2023 cover slide

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

2 years

See you tomorrow, Las Vegas! Come find me for some stickers and other Vantage swag 🙂

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

10 years

So do we eat breakfast now or just go back to bed and wake up in an hour or...? #earthquake

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

6 years

@AlaskaAir No worries - here’s what we just were told:

Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

6 years

Okay this insane. A pilot on the plane in front of us just went rogue and took off on an empty plane bypassing orders from the tower. The tower ordered a full stop and they’re trying to communicate with that pilot. Whaaaaaat!

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

🚀 Offer accepted for @JoinVantage team member #6 ! Boom!

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

1 year

🚀 Offer accepted for the newest member of the Vantage [engineering] team - boom!

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

🚀Offer accepted for the first hire [of many] of the new year! A resounding boom.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

This tweet took off a bit - if you like the topic of cloud costs, you should join the @JoinVantage Slack group:

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

1 year

🚀 Very big launch today :) Vantage is increasingly becoming a one-stop-shop for anything FinOps related: which now includes Kubernetes efficiency metrics! Huge unlock for all Vantage customers for a very big area of optimization and savings. Boom!

Vantage

@JoinVantage

1 year

🚀 Today we are launching Kubernetes Efficiency Metrics! Our new Kubernetes page shows: - Efficiency scores by cluster, namespace, and label - The dollar value of wasted resources - Which Pods can be rightsized to save money

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

2 years

So amped for this to get to Beta. I wrote the original PRFAQ/spec for this back in August of last year - it's a big one. I also recently ran the numbers for just our current userbase and we are going to save a lot of companies a *lot* of money.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

Everyone I know: “Please just be safe” Ben, to stranger on trail: “Hey can you take a picture of me if I go out on that ledge?”

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

2 years

The amount of time I have spent in this booth in the span of the last ~8 weeks is both amazing and concerning.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

2 years

now has over 500,000 developers who use the site (!) Today we launched our first Vantage-contributed feature: detail pages. Very excited for this!

EC2Instances.info Launches Detail Pages for EC2 and RDS

Detail Pages are dedicated webpages for each EC2 and RDS instance.

www.vantage.sh

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

8 years

Cutting down on my usage of "yolo" today in respect to all those celebrating Easter.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

10 months

Semi-regular pilgrimage to @a16z SF: complete.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

1 year

🚀 Offer accepted for the newest member of the Vantage [sales] team. Boom.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

2 years

I've come to realize that if you're just literally a normal human on sales calls you're seemingly better than 99% of other companies out there attempting to sell.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

Our new marketing website for just went live. Huge improvement! Give it a 👀 and let me know what you think!

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

2 years

Ending the week on the best note possible - sending out employee offers! Two offers out this week! Boom.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

3 years

Boom.

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

2 years

🚀 Offer accepted for the newest member of the Vantage [community] team - boom! 🚀 Offer accepted for the newest member of the Vantage [business operations] team - boom!

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Ben Schaechter

@Bensign

2 years

🚀 Offer accepted for the newest member of the Vantage [engineering] team. Boom.

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