Stream: interviews

Topic: 630: Building for application developers


view this post on Zulip Logbot (Feb 27 2025 at 19:25):

Anurag Goel, Founder/CEO of Render, joins Adam to discuss what they're doing to solve cloud problems for application developers. They just raised $80M they don't even need and they're poised to solve boring problems like object storage, and less boring things like building for the AI era. :link: https://changelog.fm/630

Ch Start Title Runs
01 00:00 This week on The Changelog 01:12
02 01:12 Sponsor: Retool 02:45
03 03:58 Start the show! 07:18
04 11:15 Imminent threat, but not facing Goliath 07:21
05 18:36 Two pizza teams 04:32
06 23:08 Legacy cloud vs complex cloud 04:10
07 27:18 Being in it together 03:03
08 30:20 Focused on solving problems and growing revenue 04:19
09 32:35 Sponsor: Sentry 02:04
10 34:39 Reinventing your job over and over 09:52
11 44:32 Playing with AI via a gaming PC 08:44
12 53:16 Spending $20M on GPUs 01:20
13 54:36 Building a retry world 04:22
14 58:58 Friendly neighborhood CEO 01:22
15 1:00:19 Did you need the $80M? 17:39
16 1:15:54 Sponsor: Temporal 02:04
17 1:17:58 Where do you go from here? 05:03
18 1:23:01 Examining the Render org chart 08:59
19 1:31:59 How deep shoudl we go? 06:01
20 1:38:00 Enjoying that series C legitimacy 04:01
21 1:42:01 The better new heroku? 02:31
22 1:44:32 The cloud is BIG and there's lots of room 02:37
23 1:47:09 Giving application developers what they want 01:36
24 1:48:44 Wrapping up 00:50
25 1:49:35 Closing thoughts and stuff 02:05
26 1:51:40 ++ Teaser 00:51

view this post on Zulip Nabeel S (Mar 01 2025 at 15:37):

Favorite quote from this episode: no is temporary, yes is forever.

view this post on Zulip Joe (Mar 11 2025 at 18:54):

Almost skipped this episode (the title didn't pull me in) but sure glad I gave it a listen. I loved hearing Anurag's take on building Render. Interesting that he doesn't position Render as a "better-Heroku". I like how intentional he is with how Render is positioned. I've never used it before but now curious to take a look into it. Curious how to compares to Fly.


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