Former CTO of Backblaze, now retired living in Austin, Texas after 30 years of living in the San Francisco area.
Austin, TX
Joined December 2008
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Brian Wilson retweeted
We IPO-ed a year ago, and we’ve got some notes: @GlebBudman Backblaze CEO, explains why IPO readiness should be part of every business leader’s consideration set:
hubs.ly/Q01s1vzp0
#Backblaze #Nasdaq #IPO $BLZE
Backblaze continues to be the only company publishing drive failure stats. Why is that? backblaze.com/blog/backblaze…
Brian Wilson retweeted
And we’re hiring ->
backblaze.hrmdirect.com/empl…
Brian Wilson retweeted
.@Backblaze CEO @GlebBudmanjoins @JillMalandrino on @NasdaqExchange #TradeTalks to discuss cloud and data trends, as well as what is driving the company’s growth. $BLZE xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1DXxyvgey…
Brian Wilson retweeted
🎉 Our Q1 2022 Drive Stats report has arrived! 🎉 With the latest data on over 200,000 drives in our data centers. Find out which drives work best in our environment, and May the 4th be with you! Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2022 ->
hubs.ly/Q019w96S0 via @backblaze
ALT Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2022
Brian Wilson retweeted
CONGRATULATIONS to the OG founders at #BLZE - you guys rocked it and I can't WAIT to see whats next! Gleb Budman Billy Ng Casey Jones Damon Uyeda @nilayp an SO many others! lnkd.in/eSd68BNA
Brian Wilson retweeted
We did it!
It’s been an intense few weeks preparing for this moment, but I wouldn’t trade this feeling for the world 🔥 So happy to be part of the @backblaze team!
#BackblazeIPO #BlazeOn
Brian Wilson retweeted
From all of us here at @Backblaze, to the nearly 500,000 customers around the world that brought us this far: thank you for trusting us with the photos, videos, documents, and data you cherish most.
- The Backblaze Team
#BlazeOn #BackblazeIPO $BLZE
ALT To Our Customers: Thank you.
Brian Wilson retweeted
This week’s been busy. There’s been #Apple events, and #Google events. Well what about a #Backblaze event?!
Join us tomorrow, October 21st at 10am Pacific for #DeveloperDay!
Sign up now and #BlazeOn:
brighttalk.com/webcast/14807…
ALT Backblaze Developer Day - October 21, 2021
I like this quote about "World Class Customer Service" for American Express. Because seriously, nobody will respond. There is nobody home. American Express Sucks more than any company has ever sucked before.
Brian Wilson retweeted
Pssst. We know you’re interested in working at @backblaze. And we just redesigned our application tracking system. So…check it out why don’t ya:
backblaze.hrmdirect.com/empl…
Brian Wilson retweeted
💽 165,530 Drives Managed
💽 ~40k added in 2020
💽 AFR for 2020: 0.93%
2020 Hard Drive Stats Are Here!
We review the year that was 2020 as it relates to the hard drives we have in our fleet and look at the 16TB & 18TB we’re deploying:
backblaze.com/blog/backblaze… via @backblaze
ALT A hard drive sitting on a desk with Drive Stats 2020 written on it.
Brian Wilson retweeted
Hey! We’re #hiring tech roles. Know someone? Are someone? Here are the direct links:
Senior (Linux) Sys Admin:
workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/…
Infrastructure Software Engineer:
workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/…
Systems Administrator (x2):
workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/…
#TechJobs #NowHiring
Brian Wilson retweeted
A group of us across medicine, academia and other areas have come together and sent this letter to the PM and his team.
Professors Heneghan, Gupta and many others - a wide range of voices as this crisis affects everything.
We desperately need a rethink to find a better balance.
About 70,000 people attend Burning Man each year - considering the Coronavirus situation, are any of you Burners thinking of skipping this year? Have any of the large camps pulled out yet?
Brian Wilson retweeted
When Google puts 4 paid ads ahead of the first organic result for your own brand name, you’re forced to pay up if you want to be found. It’s a shakedown. It’s ransom. But at least we can have fun with it. Search for Basecamp and you may see this attached ad.
Backblaze just became a multi-national corporation by opening a datacenter in Europe. backblaze.com/blog/announcin…