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Building for application developers
Feb 27, 2025
Anurag Goel, Founder/CEO of Render and former Stripe engineer, dives into the challenges and triumphs of building a cloud platform for application developers. He shares insights on their impressive $80M funding without need and their mission to streamline cloud complexities. The conversation touches on Render's growth, the idea of 'two pizza teams' for collaboration, and the critical role of resilience in application development. Anurag also discusses the future of cloud infrastructure, embracing AI, and how to adapt to evolving developer needs.
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- Anurag Goel emphasizes Render's mission to enable developers to efficiently deploy applications without complex infrastructure knowledge, contrasting traditional DevOps setups.
- The recent $80M funding will empower Render to expand operational capabilities, particularly in hiring and market outreach, enhancing the platform's offerings.
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Anurag Goel's Journey to Founding Render
Anurag Goel shares his career trajectory, illustrating his transition from being the fifth engineer at Stripe to founding Render. Motivated by the need to solve significant problems in cloud infrastructure, he aimed to create a platform that enhances developer productivity by streamlining the application deployment process. He emphasizes that many developers need quick and reliable solutions without the burdens of traditional DevOps setups. This vision ultimately led to the establishment of Render in 2018, a service geared toward simplifying application hosting and management.
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