Ben Uretsky

Ben Uretsky possesses an incredibly deep, highly specialized background in server infrastructure and early managed hosting operations. Having spent essentially his entire early career bootstrapping and scaling ServerStack from the ground up, this intense, highly rigorous background in navigating complex server logistics and managing massive data centers provided the exact technical and operational blueprint required to successfully architect DigitalOcean.

Ben Uretsky is a highly successful American entrepreneur and the founding CEO of DigitalOcean, a massive, globally recognized cloud computing platform designed specifically for software developers. Born in Russia and raised in Brooklyn, Uretsky initially co-founded ServerStack, a managed hosting company, alongside his brother Moisey in 2003. Frustrated by the massive complexity and high costs of enterprise cloud providers like AWS, the brothers launched DigitalOcean in 2011 to provide incredibly simple, highly affordable virtual private servers (known as 'Droplets'). After graduating from the highly prestigious Techstars accelerator in 2012, Uretsky successfully led the company through massive global expansion, securing its status as a tech 'unicorn' and laying the absolute groundwork for its highly lucrative 2021 IPO.