Christopher Aker founded Linode in 2003 with a mission to make cloud computing simple, affordable, and accessible to every developer around the world. His early embrace of the open source movement and virtualization technologies helped pioneer the $214 billion cloud computing industry. The bootstrapped, customer-first, and mission-based company he built has grown into a $100m+ driving force for innovation, serving over 1 million developers, startups, and businesses worldwide.