Unfortunately, in today’s world and even right here on HN, the emphasis on growth and valuation and ignoring profitability. I’m glad to see any company whose business model is to charge enough for a product to (hopefully) be profitable.
But that means you are an unhip "lifestyle business" and obviously if you're profitable, you must be doing something wrong. How do you ever expect to have an enormous exit and make your investors rich?
But your response was quite informative. Backblaze is one of the few smaller tech companies I admire from a business side along with Fog Creek, JetBrains and Base Camp.
(I only noticed it a few weeks ago when I was surprised to see their address was Austin, TX)