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

Finance 101 for Early Stage Startup Founders with Debbie Rosler

In this Mucker Growth Session, Debbie Rosler from Burkland dives into the fundamental financial best practices and infrastructure early -stage startups need to put in place. Finance 101: Why Should...

Engineering Customer & Product Feedback Loops with Holden Munson & Sofia Maravich

In this Mucker Growth session, Holden Munson and Sofia Maravich from Rethink Labs, explore how to develop a useful system of collecting customer data and integrating it into your team....

How Startups Can Win More Enterprise Deals Through Value Selling with Mike Genstil

In this Mucker Growth session, Mike Genstil with ValueCore delves into the concept of value selling and its application in enterprise sales. Delivering value at every touchpoint of...

How to Keep Your Emails Landing in the Inbox with Google’s Updated Spam Policies with Daniel-wise Ojaide

In this Mucker Growth session, Daniel-wise Ojaide from Warmbox.ai delves into the changes to Google and Yahoo’s updated spam policies and how to ensure your emails and outbound campaigns are...

Best Customers, Best Results: Unlocking Retention-Driven B2C Growth with Julius Lai

In this Mucker Growth session, Julius Lai from ArtShare discusses customer retention, which is often overlooked but essential for startups facing growth challenges. The following content will provide practical recaps...

Leveraging a Financial Model for Fundraising Success with Steven Plappert

In this Mucker Growth Session, Steven Plappert, CEO and co-founder of Forecastr, tackles how to use your financial model to the best capacity when fundraising. Your financial model can be...