Changelog Interviews – Episode #630
Building for application developers
with Anurag Goel, Founder & CEO of Render
Anurag Goel, Founder/CEO of Render, joins Adam to discuss what they’re doing to solve cloud problems for application developers. They just raised $80M they don’t even need and they’re poised to solve boring problems like object storage, and less boring things like building for the AI era.
Featuring
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Notes & Links
Chapters
| Chapter Number | Chapter Start Time | Chapter Title | Chapter Duration |
| 1 | 00:00 | This week on The Changelog | 01:12 |
| 2 | 01:12 | Sponsor: Retool | 02:45 |
| 3 | 03:58 | Start the show! | 07:18 |
| 4 | 11:15 | Imminent threat, but not facing Goliath | 07:21 |
| 5 | 18:36 | Two pizza teams | 04:32 |
| 6 | 23:08 | Legacy cloud vs complex cloud | 04:10 |
| 7 | 27:18 | Being in it together | 03:03 |
| 8 | 30:20 | Focused on solving problems and growing revenue | 04:19 |
| 9 | 32:35 | Sponsor: Sentry | 02:04 |
| 10 | 34:39 | Reinventing your job over and over | 09:52 |
| 11 | 44:32 | Playing with AI via a gaming PC | 08:44 |
| 12 | 53:16 | Spending $20M on GPUs | 01:20 |
| 13 | 54:36 | Building a retry world | 04:22 |
| 14 | 58:58 | Friendly neighborhood CEO | 01:22 |
| 15 | 1:00:19 | Did you need the $80M? | 17:39 |
| 16 | 1:15:54 | Sponsor: Temporal | 02:04 |
| 17 | 1:17:58 | Where do you go from here? | 05:03 |
| 18 | 1:23:01 | Examining the Render org chart | 08:59 |
| 19 | 1:31:59 | How deep shoudl we go? | 06:01 |
| 20 | 1:38:00 | Enjoying that series C legitimacy | 04:01 |
| 21 | 1:42:01 | The better new heroku? | 02:31 |
| 22 | 1:44:32 | The cloud is BIG and there's lots of room | 02:37 |
| 23 | 1:47:09 | Giving application developers what they want | 01:36 |
| 24 | 1:48:44 | Wrapping up | 00:50 |
| 25 | 1:49:35 | Closing thoughts and stuff | 02:05 |
| 26 | 1:51:40 | ++ Teaser | 00:51 |