DigitalOcean co-founder Ben Uretsky recently discussed the company's humble beginnings and its growth over the past six years in an interview with Mitch Wainer on The Deep End podcast. DigitalOcean was started by Ben and three other co-founders in 2011, initially managed by Jeff Carr, who single-handedly scaled the service to nearly 100,000 customers. The company has since grown to become a global leader in cloud computing, with a team of over 350 people. Ben shared that the engineering team's evolution was crucial to DigitalOcean's growth, from a small team of one engineer to a more verticalized structure around each product. As CEO, Ben faces challenges related to people management and painting the right vision for the business, but emphasizes that companies are collections of people first and foremost. The company has also launched its Hatch incubator program, which provides infrastructure credit and technical support to startups globally.