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Rendering the Future of the Cloud with Anurag Goel, Founder and CEO at Render
Sep 30, 2024
Anurag Goel, founder and CEO of Render, shares his insights from being an early employee at Stripe to leading a cloud infrastructure revolution. He highlights the challenges of cloud complexity and how Render simplifies deployment and enhances performance. Goel discusses the importance of user feedback, the advantages of cloud services, and his company's unique hiring strategies focused on talent density. He also emphasizes the need for the right tools to drive business value, showcasing successful transitions to Render for various teams.
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- Anurag Goel reflects on his transformative experience at Stripe, which laid the foundation for his entrepreneurial journey in creating Render.
- Render aims to simplify cloud application deployment, allowing developers to focus on product innovation instead of managing complex infrastructure setups.
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Journey from Stripe to Founding Render
The speaker shares their experience as one of the original employees at Stripe, detailing how they became involved with the company during its early stages. They integrated Stripe's payment system while it was still being developed and provided feedback that contributed to its enhancement. Ultimately, after nearly five years at Stripe, they left to explore different challenges that aligned more with their interests. This decision marked the beginning of their journey to create Render, aimed at addressing more significant problems in cloud application deployment and management.
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