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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Building for application developers (Interview)

Feb 27, 2025
Anurag Goel, the visionary Founder/CEO of Render, discusses how his platform simplifies cloud challenges for application developers. He dives into the $80M funding, emphasizing the need for user-friendly cloud solutions beyond traditional services. The conversation highlights the shift towards smaller, autonomous development teams and the importance of product flexibility. Anurag also shares insights on building reliable tech to solve real problems and the evolving landscape of application development, reflecting on his journey in the tech industry.
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Quick takeaways

  • Anurag Goel aims to revolutionize cloud infrastructure for application developers by simplifying operations and enhancing developer productivity through Render.
  • Render has experienced organic growth, successfully attracting over 110,000 developer sign-ups by prioritizing user feedback and community trust over traditional marketing.

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Anurag Goel's Journey to Founding Render

Anurag Goel shares his background as the fifth engineer at Stripe before founding Render, highlighting the pivotal moments that steered him towards this venture. He emphasizes a desire to tackle significant problems within the cloud infrastructure space that he encountered while building applications. Goel’s experience showcased the challenges developers faced with existing platforms, which drove him to create a solution that prioritized ease of use and developer productivity. The motivation to innovate stemmed from witnessing inefficiencies during his tenure at Stripe, leading him to a path of solving these prevalent issues in cloud computing.

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