The Chief Product Officer of DigitalOcean shares their excitement in joining the company, emphasizing their passion for open source communities and cloud native space. They discuss their previous experience at Microsoft's Azure Developer Experience group and their contributions to Docker and Kubernetes projects. The author highlights the importance of empowering developers, especially small teams and businesses, and how DigitalOcean is uniquely focused on supporting these groups. They also mention the company's commitment to providing a full spectrum of managed services with a focus on developer experience and success.