Backblaze on EFactor Network

A few months ago Backblaze joined EFactor, a worldwide network of entrepreneurs. Many entrepreneurs are busily creating content, writing code, preparing business plans, etc.—all while working from a coffee shop or traveling back-and-forth from meetings. At Backblaze, we wanted to offer all of these entrepreneurs our online backup service in the hope that they don’t have one of those “Noooooo!!” moments when they realize the marketing plan they have spent many late nights working on just vanished with the laptop that was stolen out of the taxi cab.

In addition to being available as a resource on the EFactor site, Backblaze was invited to demo last week at the BCSSA Entrepreneurial Pitch Competition and interviewed on EFactor Radio. We hope to help many other great entrepreneurs through our relationship with EFactor.

If you are a current (or budding) entrepreneur, consider joining EFactor. As a bit of extra incentive, they are currently approaching the million-member mark and are awarding a three day trip to NYC or Amsterdam for the 1,000,000th member.

About Gleb Budman

Gleb Budman is a co-founder and has served as our chief executive officer since 2007, guiding the business from its inception in a Palo Alto apartment to a company serving customers in more than 175 countries with over an exabyte of data under management. Gleb has served as a member of our board of directors since 2009 and as chairperson since January 2021. Prior to Backblaze, Gleb was the senior director of product management at SonicWall and the vice president of products at MailFrontier, which was acquired by SonicWall. Before that, he served in a senior position at Kendara, which was acquired by Excite@Home, and previously founded and successfully exited two other startup companies.