Backblaze turns 5 – a startup grows up

Thanks! It's been extremely fun this time around partly because we decided not to take any VC funding. (We were all part of a previous startup that took VC funding and it causes some complications we wanted to avoid this time.)

In the Backblaze spirit of building it ourselves to save money, instead of any traditional security system, we have little web cams that monitor the office for motion and page us with pictures of the activity when there is unexpected motion too early before anybody is supposed to be in the office.

I wanted to test if anybody was paying attention to the alerts, so I bought a horse head mask and walked around the office super early. The robe was a random afterthought to help disguise my clothing that might be recognized.

I'm happy to report the experiment worked. Motion detected, emails sent out within a few minutes. I also had a good laugh. :-)