Did you try to launch your own cloud offering on someone else's cloud? Did you expect the other cloud would never expand their offering?

I doubt they ever tried to compete with you, and probably didn't even know you were doing something similar. You were just able to come to market before they felt they were ready with a similar product.

This is implying that you or others were creating managed products using Droplets? How is it DigitalOcean's fault if they want to create more vertically integrated products using their own technology?