In this episode of The Venture-Scale SaaS Operator, Bob Miles talks about Salad, a decentralized cloud computing platform that harnesses the idle computing resources of gamers and everyday internet users to power various computing workloads. He also talks about Salad's strategic entry into the competitive cloud computing market, initially focusing on supply acquisition and now capitalizing on the high demand for GPU resources in AI computations. Tune in to learn more about: ~ The Intriguing Journey of Acquiring the Salad.com domain ~ How Salad's Supply-Side Growth Strategy Worked ~ Bob's Perspective on Finding the Right Focus in a Startup Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:09 Getting the Domain Name 00:52 Problem Salad Solves 01:41 Entering the Competitive Cloud Computing Space 03:01 Focus on GPUs and AI Inference 04:33 Pricing and Cost Advantage 06:58 Customer Trust and Security 08:39 Company Growth and Funding 09:24 Team Structure and Engineering Focus 15:21 Brand Awareness and Market Entry 18:42 Balancing Focus and Market Obligations 24:42 Big Vision for Salad 25:19 Outro The SaaS Operator Newsletter Get actionable insights from SaaS veterans to grow your MRR. Join hundreds of PLG founders at: EarlyNode.com/Subscribe Follow Bob Miles On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milesbob Mentioned In The Episode Salad.com - A Compute Sharing Application ReactSquad.io - React.js Agency for Startups EarlyNode On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/earlynode On Twitter: https://twitter.com/EarlyNode On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/earlynode_crew/ On Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/earlynode On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@earlynode On TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@earlynode Nikolas Chapoupis On Twitter: https://twitter.com/nikolas_chap On LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/in/nikolas-chapoupis