The REAL Story Behind How Backblaze Can Afford Unlimited Storage for $5/Month

We told you the reason our online backup service could offer unlimited storage for just $5/month was as a result of our incredibly efficient cloud storage built on our custom-designed and open-sourced Storage Pod hardware.

But, here’s the REAL story:

 

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.