Paul Ford, Vice President, Softlayer - The SoftLayer Story – Building the worlds most successful...
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The SoftLayer Story 2005 - 2013
Paul Ford, Vice President, Softlayer - The SoftLayer Story – Building the worlds most successful independent Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) company based on Customers, Revenue,
Learn how to create a customer centric business and how to develop a great company culture from one of the tech companies that have made it from startup to acquisition. More details on: http://2013.howtoweb.co/
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1. The SoftLayer Story 2005 - 2013
2. Ten Founders One Vision 3. Raising Funds to Build the Best
(Or Not JFDI!) 4. Humble Beginnings Nice (Wooden) Rack! 5. Focus on
Customers 6. Customers = Revenue (But, You Have to Earn It!) 7.
Culture is EVERYTHING (Work Hard Play Hard) 8. Truck Day 9. Culture
Too3BFL 10. What We've Built13 Data Centers 17 Network PoPs Global
Private Network100,00021,00022,000,000SERVERSCUSTOMERSDOMAINS 11.
Total Control 12. Focus on Developers(DevOps Before DevOps Was
Cool) 13. Like Who? Software as a ServiceMobile &
CommunicationsBumpVoxerInstapaperSocialGames and
EntertainmentPlatform as a ServiceMarketing and Digital
MediaHosting & Service ProvidersEnterpriseYelp 14. Focus on
Startups 15. By The Numbers 16. Things to Remember Solve Real
Problems Ruthless Focus Customers First Build a Strong Culture Its
All About Revenue 17. [email protected] @paulford
