{"id":105494,"date":"2022-04-20T08:43:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T15:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=105494"},"modified":"2025-07-18T14:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T21:26:13","slug":"were-turning-15-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/were-turning-15-today\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Turning 15 Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Who doesn\u2019t like birthdays? We definitely do. And we usually celebrate ours on the Backblaze Blog because they\u2019re fun, and we like reminiscing about the time we passed 10 petabytes<\/a> of data under management and how cute<\/span> exciting that was (we now have over two exabytes of data storage under management, for context).<\/p>\n

But this past year, well, things have been busy! And the last few months have been busier still. Honestly, our 15th anniversary almost slipped right by us. But, we couldn\u2019t let such a milestone go by without marking it somehow.<\/p>\n

Today, we thought we\u2019d take a brief look back on our beginnings and where we are now as a public company\u2014a little \u201chow it started\/how it\u2019s going\u201d retrospective to celebrate our coming of age\u2014not to pat ourselves on the back, but to celebrate the ways our team and business have grown, especially over the past year.<\/p>\n

How It Started<\/strong><\/h2>\n

One of the things we\u2019re most proud of is the incredible team we\u2019ve built. Before we founded Backblaze, the five founders and two demi-founders had worked together for 20 years. So, we knew the kind of company we wanted to create when we sat down to hash out what Backblaze would be\u2014a company that\u2019s equally fair and good for its customers, partners, employees, investors, and the greater community.<\/p>\n

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Five co-founders; two demi-founders; 1,200 square feet; one white board; innumerable Post-Its.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The team today is a lot bigger than it once was (270+ and counting!), but when we started Backblaze, we wanted to create a culture, both internally and externally, of people who cared about each other, cared about their work, and cared about our product. We knew building that kind of culture would lead us authentically to where we are today, and we fiercely protected it. According to a<\/a> few<\/a> sources<\/a>, we\u2019re still doing well on that count.<\/p>\n

How It\u2019s Going<\/strong><\/h2>\n

So, what have we been up to recently? Thus far in 2022:<\/p>\n