Daytona grew 50% a month for 18 months without any salespeople | Ivan Burazin, CEO of Daytona
Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast, the show where we discuss the latest developments in the technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most influential people in the industry.
In today’s episode, we’re happy to present an interview with Ivan Burazin, co-founder and CEO of Daytona, the infrastructure company that gives AI agents their own computers to train and work in. Ivan explains how Daytona grew about 50% a month for 18 months without any salespeople, through in-person events and his Twitter account, which he calls the company’s second growth channel and credits for its Nvidia partnership.
We also get into the pivot that took Daytona from Fortune 500 customers back to zero, why agents need Windows and GPU sandboxes, and why Ivan expects a CPU crunch bigger than the GPU crunch. His advice to young founders: learn to handle risk and failure, because everyone plateaus once they stop taking risks.
Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at contact@thenextweb.com.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:47 Ivan's background and the Daytona name
02:17 Why customers pick Daytona over Kubernetes
03:52 Winning customers in person
05:12 Growing 50% a month without salespeople
06:18 The 3 reasons customers choose you
07:48 How Twitter led to an Nvidia partnership
10:34 Kill it or grind through it
12:57 Post-training and the CPU crunch
13:52 The pivot back to zero
14:47 Why Ivan hires for grit
15:26 Living between Europe and San Francisco
17:51 Why AI agents need Windows and GPUs
20:18 Risk, failure and how Ivan got started
24:12 Where the Daytona team is based
In today’s episode, we’re happy to present an interview with Ivan Burazin, co-founder and CEO of Daytona, the infrastructure company that gives AI agents their own computers to train and work in. Ivan explains how Daytona grew about 50% a month for 18 months without any salespeople, through in-person events and his Twitter account, which he calls the company’s second growth channel and credits for its Nvidia partnership.
We also get into the pivot that took Daytona from Fortune 500 customers back to zero, why agents need Windows and GPU sandboxes, and why Ivan expects a CPU crunch bigger than the GPU crunch. His advice to young founders: learn to handle risk and failure, because everyone plateaus once they stop taking risks.
Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at contact@thenextweb.com.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:47 Ivan's background and the Daytona name
02:17 Why customers pick Daytona over Kubernetes
03:52 Winning customers in person
05:12 Growing 50% a month without salespeople
06:18 The 3 reasons customers choose you
07:48 How Twitter led to an Nvidia partnership
10:34 Kill it or grind through it
12:57 Post-training and the CPU crunch
13:52 The pivot back to zero
14:47 Why Ivan hires for grit
15:26 Living between Europe and San Francisco
17:51 Why AI agents need Windows and GPUs
20:18 Risk, failure and how Ivan got started
24:12 Where the Daytona team is based
