Founder Profile
Mitch Wainer
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Mitch Wainer?
Mitch Wainer is a founder of DigitalOcean, which was founded in 2011 with Ben Uretsky, Moisey Uretsky, Jeff Carr and Alec Hartman.
- Company founded
- DigitalOcean
- Founded
- 2011
- Co-founders
- Ben Uretsky, Moisey Uretsky, Jeff Carr and Alec Hartman
Background
Marketing executive and startup advisor.
Founding Story
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).
Sources
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- DigitalOcean Q2 2026 Financial Results (DigitalOcean)
- DigitalOcean Q4 and Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Results (DigitalOcean)