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  passive
  Sounds like a great company raising money for the right reasons.Oxide continues to be one of the most inspiring companies in the space, I was just encouraging someone to apply there yesterday. :)
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  simonw
  Love the photo caption "FIGURE 1. US BEING AS EXCITED AS YOU CAN BE PAYING TAXES".Oxide are so good at comms.
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  meta-level
  Probably I'm blind.. is there any form of imprint on their page? An address?
• thatsabadlook
  Awesome company, awesome products. I wish they pushed AI less in their socials, like we get it computers and servers means ai workloads. It just devalues their whole image in my opinion. Hope you all do continue to do awesome things and don't become evil.
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  arpinum
  I'm surprised they didn't go the debt route, trade finance could cover their customer orders. I know they are risk averse in case companies back out of orders, but bringing on more shareholders is its own form of risk.Is something else going on here, are they locking in orders from AMD and other suppliers beyond their current order backlog?
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  tosh
  with agentic coding lock in @ AWS and Google Cloud is evaporating fasta few days ago I migrated a non-trivial firestore app to sqlite10x less latency (10x requests / second)migration took a few minutes (+ 2 days of prep)just a few months ago that would have been infeasible or at least nerve wracking
• bihla
  Maybe the most thoughtful fundraising announcement I’ve seen. Focusing on all the right stuff.
• ahl
  FYI previous discussion of the series D https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174407
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  Sebastian_09
  Really cool company! Checking out the state of the product I would have expected to see a gpu / tpu server there. Is this on the roadmap?
• ronfriedhaber
  > Well, yes, it is: most startups don’t pay income tax because most startups aren’t profitable! Indeed, startups seek investment because they have costs long before they have revenue, let alone gross profit — let alone income. This is by design: profitability is a lagging indicator of product/market fit (the adventure in venture capital is investing long before the business has materialized!).Venture Capital is one of the greatest engines of growth, and fitting for the vast majority of early stage tech companies, it is interesting to see how changes in business economics may result in niche, differing capital structures. Eg. Companies which sell RL envs have vastly different economics than a food delivery app.
• anon
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• oldfuture
  sovereign compute is the only way out of tiranny
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  dzonga
  if these guys just capture 1% of spend that's on AWS, Azure & Google Cloud they will still be very big.
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  siliconc0w
  Excellent podcast, still not sure about their stack. No GPU support is a hard sell these days.
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  blakeashleyjr
  I still don't get Oxide's offering. Anyone care to give me the skinny?
• piker
  Also time for the quarterly reminder that On the Metal / Oxide and Friends is an excellent podcast if you're into Rust and/or EE. Bryan and co. do such a good job keeping the technical discussions entertaining. Seems like an awesome place to work, too.
• jeffbee
  That's enough that they can drive down to Central Computers and grab a 32GB stick.
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  sgt
  With series B,C and now D, makes one wonder; will there be any shares left for the original team?
• typon
  Couldn't happen to a better bunch of people.I used to think that Oxide's business model sucks in the face of the hyperscalers. When AWS/GCP/Azure "just works" and is generally reliable and cheap, why would I go through the trouble of buying my own computers? Well the past 5 years have been a constant decline towards more concentration of power, lack of care for their customers, and degradation in quality in general. AI is of course accelerating this decline - selling de-slopped products is now a huge competitive advantage. All the best luck to Oxide.
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  bkolobara
  - Series B in Jul 2025 $100M- Series C in Feb 2026 $200M- Series D now $445MI expect the next round soon :)
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  claytongulick
  I really wish they had a SOHO offering, would love to run this with NextCloud and personal projects from home.
• hanspagel
  $445M is a lot of money.
• jiaosdjf
  A legit business? Raising legit money?? In this economy???Wake me up please
• trebligdivad
  Congrats! Now it does get tricky - because once you tempt investors with a profit they start worrying about your spending and expect you to keep a profit.
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  wg0
  Is this the new IBM?
• tylerhillery
  Congrats to the Oxide team!
• pkilgore
  Congrats!
• devmor
  Always happy to see Oxide growing. The way their company is run is pretty close to how I think all engineering orgs should run.Hoping they hire for a position in my area of expertise some day!
• 27183
  Excellent news! It's wonderful to see a great company succeeding.
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  herpdyderp
  I'm interested in exploring what it would be like to use them but... there's no pricing page? I don't even know where to begin.
• CurbStomper4
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