Don Bulens
@grouchyCEO
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5-time startup CEO, now Chair of #CloudZeroInc
Boston, MA, USA
Joined February 2009
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People need to stop overreacting about Kamala’s plan to reduce food inflation, as if it would lead to communism, mass starvation, and the end of America. I worked in M&A in the food industry. Here’s a step-by-step summary of what would actually happen: 1. The government
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This was incredibly clever and hilarious! But not the part about being sued.
Lived experience re. non-competes, so glad those are on the way out, our startup years ago was sued by Lotus for hiring @grouchyCEO we made our web site custom for inbound from their network, welcome, handcuffs :) Lotus settled nervous about new case law
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Dennis Eckersley, Doc Rivers, Kevin Faulk and Briana Scurry will be honored tonight at The Sports Museum’s 22nd annual gala at TD Garden. Buy tickets here: https://t.co/5Wlyqb9ZNy
https://t.co/9AlEgJKvd7
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This is powerful, and incredibly important.
Here is the entire letter to @Harvard, signed by @MittRomney @sethklarman Bill Helman, Joanna Jacobson, and many others. Please spread the word! @BostonGlobe @leung @washingtonpost @NewYorkTimesRP
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@SUBizSchool More incredible expertise at #SBW2023!: FOUNDERS TRACK ↗️ @grouchyCEO, Executive Chair, @CloudZeroInc ↗️ Adam Fisk, Director of IT Services, Tech Superpowers ↗️ @shrcubed, Founder, Stealth Grab your free ticket right here:
startupbos.org
Join us for the ninth annual Startup Boston Week, happening September 8–12 at Suffolk University! This free, five-day event series brings together founders, startup employees, mentors, investors,...
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It's always valuable to understand how and why VC's choose to make an investment. Here is a perspective on the @CloudZeroInc funding from @thresholdvc: https://t.co/y7HXBxmugA
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Congratulations to the @CloudZeroInc team for achieving this important milestone, and thank you to the great customers who make this possible! https://t.co/LzPe2rEP0Y
venturebeat.com
CloudZero, a B2B firm that makes tools to help business customers understand and control cloud costs, announced $32 million in new funding
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This is a hilarious, spot on take.
Tony Romo went from "insightful, predictive announcer" to "Bob Saget narrating America's Home Videos" in two years
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Engineering, Finance Teams Struggle to Connect Cloud Costs, Business Value
itprotoday.com
Cloud cost visibility is a problem, according to a new survey, which found half of organizations feel cloud costs are too high.
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A lot goes into building and operating modern cloud applications. It's more than just your cloud bill. To truly understand your path to profitability, you have to understand all of the costs, and now for the first time ever, with @CloudZeroInc, you can https://t.co/S79gMdQZHf
cloudzero.com
CloudZero goes beyond multi-cloud and will support virtually any cloud or software spend. Discover how CloudZero AnyCost works.
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Passionate customers make entrepreneurship worthwhile. But wait, @MBThreatIntel isn't a New England company. What's up with the Brady shirt?
The best part of #reinvent2021 has been seeing so many customers face to face! Shout out to the @Malwarebytes team for being so awesome!
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A brilliant, highly relevant blog - except for the stuff about "repatriotization" of Cloud to co-lo. If cloud cost is an engineering KPI, as they suggest, continuous margin growth will result: "The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox" https://t.co/itvNFM32tC
#tech via @a16z
a16z.com
The pressure the cloud puts on margins can start to outweigh the benefits you scale and growth slows. Understand how much market cap is being suppressed by the cloud to help inform the decision-mak...
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Customer Data Quality market leader @TrustValidity acquires multiple products & migrates to AWS. Builds innovative new platform on AWS in parallel. A recipe for cloud cost disaster? Not with #CloudZeroInc at their side. Instead, they cut costs. https://t.co/bLOJ2ZPgBE
cloudzero.com
Learn how Validity's engineering team relies on CloudZero to track the cost of migrating, refactoring, and building.
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I hear you, Mike, as long as it's not a string of ideas. I've always been guided by a 1993 Michael Dell quote: "Ideas are a commodity, but execution of them is not."
Creative people always have another idea. Show me someone too focused on defending their first, and I'll show you someone out of new ones.
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#CloudZeroInc ".... treats Engineering leaders like the executives they’ve become instead of the nerdy specialists they once were, part of the solution to getting costs under control instead of part of the problem."
We are excited to announce our new investment in @CloudZeroInc. They provide cloud cost intelligence for engineering teams, treating engineers like the executives they have become. https://t.co/KPrTQ4Q9lm
@grouchyCEO @BobtheVC @billwiberg @miketrap @aslbrowne
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Let’s stop the COVID mania and start talking about staircase tumbles. (Says the guy who is buying a 2nd story walk-up condo).
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Make it effortless for SaaS engineering teams to own AWS costs, and they will embrace the responsibility. Costs will go down, margins will improve and, counter-intuitively, innovation will flourish! https://t.co/sCmi7UrfkL
cloudzero.com
See how ResponseTap reduced overall AWS spend by 18% while democratizing cloud cost data to engineering teams.
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Answer? No freaking way. Your engineering team should be all-in on innovation. Let #cloudzeroinc help them be cost-aware as your systems deploy and scale.
Should You Build Your Own Cloud Cost Optimization Tool? 3 Questions To Ask Yourself https://t.co/SXi7dnexvp
#devops #cloudcostoptimization #aws
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Dude, you could have made MUCH more and been a top 3 EqualLogic partner!
@RonOglesby @cxi @Mitch_Northcutt @rzylowski @grouchyCEO Agree. One of my regrets is listening to my partner who, despite Don's personal visit, pushed to go w/Pillar storage instead of EqualLogic (of course this was long before Nutanix/HCI). I've since learned to trust people over perceived tech.
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