Media Temple

"Companies thrive by hiring entrepreneurs.

CEO of Media Temple available to discuss." I don't tend to think that that works, um, very often.

Um, this is a kind of interesting one.

I'll just use this maybe as a last example, unless you want me to come back to this.

It was just like, I was just thinking, "This is really disappointing," and I, I'm gonna write about this.

There were so many good hosters in the past that were geeks for geeks, like DreamHost and, uh, uh, Media Temple, and l- like, a lot of people that I know in WebDE back then in Germany, like even one-on-one, like, people, like, very obvious, uh, uh, providers.

Zen.co.uk, my first provider in England, they were basically nerds that helped me out to do my nerdy stuff and not just like people who sold you hosting packages.

And that kind of market has really, really gone down, down hill.

He started out writing code at Mobile Will.

He sold for Oracle and Silicon Valley, and he helped run companies like GoDaddy's Media Temple, OVHCloud, Netrix, and Xtune.

Now, he's built KeyDelta to help leadership teams get AI right, and his rule is very simple.

Fix the operating model first because AI only speeds up whatever you already have.

So you've been in a few turnarounds along the way, right? MediaTemple, OVHcloud, Infrascale, Netrix, XTM.

So what was the hardest one? And why the teaching?

Well, they weren't all turnarounds, right? So I think Media Temple was a phenomenal company, and I was just there to help take it to the next level.

And they had two great founders, Damien and John, but they wanted to get out.