DigitalOcean

Ben Uretsky immigrated to the United States from Russia as a child and grew up in Brooklyn, attending Stuyvesant High School. In 2003 he co-founded ServerStack, a managed hosting provider, with his brother Moisey Uretsky. Running that hosting business led the brothers to recognize that cloud computing was becoming too complex for individual developers and early-stage startups, which inspired DigitalOcean. He co-founded DigitalOcean in 2011 and served as its founding CEO, leading the company through the Techstars program and its early growth.

Moisey Uretsky co-founded the managed hosting company ServerStack with his brother Ben in 2003, building the operational experience that led the two to start DigitalOcean. He co-founded DigitalOcean in 2011 to deliver simple, developer-friendly cloud infrastructure as an alternative to the complexity of enterprise clouds. He was an early product and engineering driver of the company.

Mitch Wainer co-founded DigitalOcean in 2011 alongside the Uretsky brothers, Jeff Carr, and Alec Hartman, leading the company's early marketing and brand-building efforts as it grew a community of individual developers and startups. The team graduated from the Techstars accelerator in Boulder in 2012 and launched DigitalOcean's first product the same year. Additional verifiable detail about his earlier career could not be confirmed from public sources.

Jeff Carr is a co-founder of DigitalOcean, which he helped start in 2011 with the Uretsky brothers, Mitch Wainer, and Alec Hartman to provide simple, low-cost cloud infrastructure for developers. The founding team came out of the managed-hosting world and built DigitalOcean around developer experience rather than enterprise complexity. Additional verifiable detail about his earlier career could not be confirmed from public sources.

Alec Hartman is a co-founder of DigitalOcean, founded in 2011 with the Uretsky brothers, Mitch Wainer, and Jeff Carr. The company set out to offer radically simpler, predictably priced cloud servers for developers and small teams, and graduated from the Techstars accelerator in 2012. Additional verifiable detail about his earlier career could not be confirmed from public sources.