Syrus Akbary Nieto, Founder & CEO of Wasmer, on WebAssembly and the Future of Hosting | E137

if you asked me three weeks ago to interview i probably would have spent about like a whole day and understanding what you do but because i've been clodding a lot you know by being clodding i totally get kind of what you guys are doing but anyways to your story let's go back about to the i think you were the ct of try.com is that correct

yes that's right yeah so

prior go there and come to bosmer

So prior to creating Wasmer, I was CTO at another startup here in San Francisco.

I was there for a few years and actually then before then I was front end and backend engineer in Affair.

It's a company very similar to PayPal that basically like did the pay now or buy now, pay later.

And yeah, I've been in a few startups before and actually was pretty focused on the open source arena before or during my time at working with these startups.

Oh, wow.

That's amazing.

And then 2020 or 21, you founded Wasmer, right?

Yes.

So if you want, I can tell you a little bit of the story of how I came into Wasmer, why I decided to jump in.

Yes.

And obviously the origin of the name.

I think I kind of know the answer, but for my viewers, please.

Yes.

So the name Wasmr came from the technology that is powering all that we are doing right now, which is called WebAssembly.

WebAssembly has a acronym, which is WASM, W-A-S-M.

And basically we mix WASM plus browser or Docker.

And basically like the mix of WASM plus Docker, it's Wasmr.

And that's more or less the name that I came up with a few years ago.

Makes sense.

It does make sense.

Absolutely.

And when I went to your website, and I saw all the frameworks, you know, logos, including AASHTO, Next.js, etc.