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Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures, investing in devops, infra, OSS and security companies in particular. Typically lead As, also invest in seed and Series B. Also serve on the board of the Linux Foundation.

Previously: COO at GitHub, co-founder and COO of Bitnami (acquired by VMware).

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LOL no. The Zed founders are the guys who built Atom and Electron (and Treesitter): Nathan Sobo, Max Brunsfeld and Antonio Scandurra.

We (Bitnami) have been using Zesty for a couple of weeks and are really happy so far. The food has always arrived on time, they've been great at helping us curate the list of restaurants they rotate through for us and the food is healthy and plentiful.

I think the $7-$8 price point is ideal. It is affordable enough for most companies to be able to justify it. Over $10/meal starts seeming a little extravagant to me.

Source: Startup founder who is about to sign up with the service to give it a try because I've been looking for something like this.

Absolutely agree. As a woman in tech, these types of discussions make me sick to my stomach. What an absolute waste of time and energy (except for those using it for political gain, I suppose, but they rarely achieve that through these types of shenanigans.)

Yes, they have a special arrangement with Microsoft. That is why you will see that it is more expensive to run Windows-based instances on AWS than it is to run the free Linux OSs (Amazon Linux and Ubuntu, for example.) You can put together and publish your own AMIs for Amazon based on Windows, but users can't download and use them (as with all AMIs) - they just deploy them to Amazon and then they would be paying the additional hourly fees.