Who Founded DigitalOcean?

Ben Uretsky co-founded DigitalOcean in 2011 and served as its CEO until 2018, leading it through Techstars, early venture rounds including the 2015 Series B, and global data center expansion. He previously co-founded ServerStack with his brother Moisey. Mark Templeton succeeded him as CEO in 2018.

Education: Stuyvesant High School.

Uretsky served as chief executive of DigitalOcean. Ben Uretsky was born in 1983.

Moisey Uretsky co-founded DigitalOcean in 2011 and held product leadership roles, shaping its focus on a simple control panel and fast server provisioning. Like his brother, he came from the managed hosting business ServerStack. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).

Jeff Carr co-founded DigitalOcean in 2011. Frustrated by the extreme complexity and opaque pricing of AWS, he helped design the initial architecture for 'Droplets' (simple, affordable virtual machines) that could be spun up by a solo developer in under a minute. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).

Mitch Wainer co-founded DigitalOcean in 2011. He was the absolute driving force behind the company's legendary content marketing strategy, building a massive library of thousands of high-quality tutorials that organically captured millions of developers searching for server configurations on Google. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).

Alec Hartman co-founded DigitalOcean in 2011 alongside his partners from ServerStack. He played a critical role in securing the company's early funding rounds and establishing the incredibly developer-friendly brand identity that allowed the company to survive against massive tech monopolies. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).