You can find Rob Pankow (CEO & Co-founder of simplyblock and host of Cloud Frontier) on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertpankow
📔 Chapters:
01:04 - Guest and Company Introduction
07:55 - Choosing the right game to play
12:23 - How BlueDot grew their customers
18:57 - The next plan for BlueDot
20:49 - What your customers really need
23:11 - Fundraise or Bootstrap?
26:24 - Ruslan's go-to market strategies
31:07 - Getting your first customers
38:21 - How does Ruslan get his knowledge?
41:29 - What's exciting happening in Ruslan's space?
44:27 - Conclusion
Cloud Frontier is brought to you by simplyblock. On Cloud Frontier, our Co-founder, Rob Pankow, engages with fellow founders to discuss their entrepreneurial paths, challenges in building software companies, and the innovations shaping cloud infrastructure. For more episodes, visit Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5tqKWgHgbtOQTF0ud7F8Bu
☁️ Cloud Frontier Report:
Read our free quarterly newsletter packed with insights on the cloud infrastructure landscape: https://www.simplyblock.io/cloud-frontier-report
📋 Show notes:
Guest links & episode links:
Russ' LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/russkhalilov/
Russ' Twitter/X: https://x.com/rusras_
BlueDot website: https://www.bluedothq.com/
Follow us on:
🐦 simplyblock Twitter/X: https://x.com/simplyblock_io
👨💻 simplyblock LinkedIn: / simplyblock-io
📹 simplyblock Youtube: / @simplyblock
Know more about us:
🌍 simplyblock Website: https://simplyblock.io/
Simplyblock is NVMe-based storage platform for IO-intensive workloads in Kubernetes, including databases and analytics solutions.
Key features of simplyblock:
⭐ Smart local NVMe caching to eliminate read I/O latency and speed up database queries
⭐ Intelligent data tiering between high-speed NVMe and other storage tiers
⭐ Maximum IOPS and lowest latency on read
⭐ Benefits of thin provisioning, instant copy-on-write clone, compression, deduplication & encryption