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