Backblaze

Our mission is to make customers unstoppable by solving their toughest data storage challenges. Backblaze gives businesses the freedom to innovate without limits by removing the barriers of lock-in, complexity, and cost. Our high-performance cloud object storage accelerates AI workflows, powers data-heavy applications, streamlines media management, and protects critical data. As an award-winning independent cloud, we provide unparalleled levels of interoperability that enable over 500,000 of our customers to reach and serve hundreds of millions of end users in 175 countries around the world. This cloud storage service is everything Amazon’s AWS isn’t. Through resourcefulness, pluck, and constant improvisation, Backblaze has outlasted bigger, brawnier players with a cloud storage service even technophobes can love. From day one, the Backblaze founders brought our values to life, which has shaped the company and our staff. Be good. Trust is paramount. Build a good product. Charge fairly. Be open, honest, and accepting with customers and each other. Build for long-term success. Be rationally frugal. Invest responsibly. Keep profitability in mind, and build at a sustainable pace. Think hard how to make things easy. Take extra time to achieve simplicity, minimize friction, and reduce complexity. Default to sharing unless there is a strong reason not to. Transparency builds trust and establishes leadership. Work where you want, with whoever you want, how you want via our S3 compatible API and with advanced features like Event Notifications. Our innovative software eliminates complex tiers, excessive fees, and lock-in, all at a fraction the price of others—freeing you to store and use data as needed. Gleb Budman is a co-founder and has served as our chief executive officer since 2007, guiding the business from its inception in a Palo Alto apartment to a company serving customers in more than 175 countries with over an exabyte of data under management. Gleb has served as a member of our board of directors since 2009 and as chairperson since January 2021. Prior to Backblaze, Gleb was the senior director of product management at SonicWall and the vice president of products at MailFrontier, which was acquired by SonicWall. Before that, he served in a senior position at Kendara, which was acquired by Excite@Home, and previously founded and successfully exited two other startup companies. Gleb earned a M.B.A. and B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Dan Spraggins joined Backblaze in January 2026 and serves as chief technology officer. He brings more than two decades of experience leading large-scale software, platform, and AI engineering for global technology companies. Prior to Backblaze, Dan served as vice president of engineering at HP, where he led global software engineering teams responsible for AI-driven products and platforms. Before that, he held senior engineering leadership roles at Rackspace and CA Technologies. Throughout his career, Dan has focused on modernizing architectures and delivering reliable, scalable software systems. At Backblaze, Dan is responsible for advancing our storage cloud, driving innovation, and ensuring our platform continues to deliver performance, durability, and value. Dan earned a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin. Marc Suidan joined Backblaze in 2024 as our chief financial officer. He brings more than 20 years of operational, strategic, and financial experience with both growth start-ups and global Fortune 500 companies in the technology, media, and consumer industries. Previously, he was the CFO of The Beachbody Company (NYSE: BODi), and Senior Partner at PwC, where his clients included large and notable technology companies and private equity funds. Marc sits on the Board of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation and the Silicon Valley International School. Marc earned his Master of Business Administration from