Ben Uretsky

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Ben Uretsky is the cofounder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of DigitalOcean, a cloud infrastructure provider. [1]

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Early life

Uretsky’s family immigrated to the U.S. from Russia when he was five. He grew up in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn and attended Stuyvesant High School. [2] [3]

Career

In 2003 Uretsky founded his first company ServerStack, a managed hosting provider, with his brother Moisey Uretsky. The company was a precursor to DigitalOcean. [2] [4] Prior to starting ServerStack, Uretsky worked for another managed hosting company called Like Whoa. [5] [2]

In 2011, Uretsky founded DigitalOcean with his brother and another cofounder, Mitch Wainer. [6] In 2012, Uretsky and the other cofounders graduated from the Techstars incubator program in Boulder, Colorado. [7] [8] They launched the first version of DigitalOcean’s product the same year. [9]

In June 2018, Uretsky stepped down as CEO of DigitalOcean and was succeeded by former Citrix CEO Mark Templeton. He remained on the company’s board. [1]

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