Guest Gleb Budman, co-founder and CEO of Backblaze, discusses bootstrapping, serving mid-market customers, building their own platform, and the advantages of startups. They also talk about building an affordable storage infrastructure and learning from mistakes.

Backblaze CEO Gleb Budman discusses the economics of cloud storage and their recent 60% reduction in download pricing. They explore the challenges and considerations in cloud storage, the evolution of Backblaze and the launch of their cloud storage API service, Backblaze B2. The chapter also delves into the size and scale of the company's data storage and compares it to industry leaders like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.