Simon Ponsford
- CEO at YellowDog
GetLatka interview
How YellowDog Serves 30 Recurring Customers and 4,500 Render Customers with a 12-Person Team (Interview with CEO Simon Ponsford)
Simon Ponsford (CEO of YellowDog) spoke to Nathan Latka on October 13, 2021.
YellowDog figures from the interview
- Valuation (2021 down round)
- 12,500,000
- Recurring Customers (2021)
- 30
- Total Raised
- 8,000,000
- Team Size (2021)
- 12
- Engineers (2021)
- 7
“Really, it goes back to the concepts really distributed computing about being able to take an application that runs on more than one core and being able to distribute that across many cores generally in the cloud. And for us, it means almost unlimited scaling, taking people to hundreds of thousands or millions of cores to get their workloads or their applications, jobs completed very quickly.”
“It's almost like two different markets. There's a sweet spot in the small and mid market, which is generally around about $5,000 then the upper end, it's probably closer to 50,000.”
“In the render market, we've got about four and a half thousand customers. In the other market, it's much smaller today. So you're talking sub a 100 in those other markets.”
Bio
Simon has over 20 years’ experience in high growth start-up environments working in Technical Architect, CIO, CTO and CEO roles in Europe and North America. He has also spent time in academia, working as a Senior Scientist in Distributed Computing and has over 20 cloud computing-related patents to his name.