Simon Anderson

CEO & Founder

at Mission Cloud

Simon is currently the CEO of Mission, a leading public cloud consulting and managed services company. Prior to Mission, he was CEO of DreamHost, a US-based web hosting and cloud services company with a super technical team and open source culture, plus over 400,000 customers and 1.5 million sites, blogs and apps hosted. DreamHost delivers its services to entrepreneurs and developers worldwide leveraging and contributing to open source software platforms like Linux, OpenStack, Ceph, and WordPress. Simon also co-founded and Chaired the Board of Inktank Storage, a startup founded in early 2012 to develop Ceph open source distributed storage software and deliver support and services for enterprises wanting to implement it for public and private clouds. Inktank was acquired by Red Hat in April 2014 for $175MM, and will become a core platform in Red Hat’s storage business unit. DreamHost is Simon’s 5th executive role at a Web infrastructure start-up or growth venture in the US. He came over to running things from the dark side of venture capital investing in the early 2000’s, where he’d been poached from his calling as a weekend surf lifesaver in Sydney, Australia. He now lives in Los Angeles where everyone wants to live, although nobody wants to admit it.

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Articles by Simon Anderson

How Shaun Merritt Vibe-Coded Karrot.ai As A Solo Builder

I recently had the opportunity to chat with Shaun Merritt, cofounder and CTO of Karrot.ai, a LinkedIn ABM tool. Shaun was kind enough to share a comprehensive breakdown of how...

7 Steps to Build a Product That Sells Itself

Learn the 7 steps to product-led growth (PLG) to build a product that sells itself. Drive activation, boost conversions, and scale efficiently with Wes Bush from ProductLed....

The Founder’s Mental Health Playbook: What I Learned After Nearly Burning Out

A hard-won guide to staying mentally healthy while building a startup I founded Stitcher, the podcast platform, in 2007 and ran it for seven years until we sold in 2014....

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) for Early Stage Companies

In our latest session from the Mucker Growth Series featuring Ethan Smith from Graphite, we explored AEO, a significant new approach for optimizing visibility in AI-driven search, particularly relevant as...

Startup Guide to AI Visibility: Be the Brand ChatGPT Recommends

Introduction Today, users aren’t just searching on Google. They’re asking ChatGPT, Claude, Google’s Gemini, Perplexity, and other AI systems for advice. AI visibility is the new frontier of brand awareness....

Practical Uses of AI & Automation for Startup Operations

In a recent Mucker Growth Series session, we invited Rock Vitale, Founder & CEO of Easie, to share how he’s helped early-stage teams move from manual, fragmented workflows to streamlined,...