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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Backblaze.\n\nGleb Budman co-founded Backblaze, a cloud storage and backup company, and has been its CEO since 2007 and board chair since January 2021. He was previously senior director of product management at SonicWall and vice president of products at MailFrontier, which SonicWall acquired, and founded two earlier startups.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glebbudman\n\n## What Gleb builds\n\n- [Backblaze B2](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/backblaze-b2.md), graded A, 79.2/100, in File storage \u0026 sharing. Object storage at $6.95 a TB-month with the first 10 GB free, egress free up to three times what you store and $0.01 a GB after, and no charge for most API calls. Co-founder, Backblaze, researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Billy Ng](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/billy-ng/), Co-founder, Backblaze\n- [Brian Wilson](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brian-wilson/), Co-founder, Backblaze\n- [Casey Jones](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/casey-jones/), Co-founder, Backblaze\n- [Damon Uyeda](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/damon-uyeda/), Co-founder, Backblaze\n- [Nilay Patel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/nilay-patel/), Co-founder, Backblaze\n- [Tim Nufire](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tim-nufire/), Co-founder, Backblaze\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Gleb Budman?\n\nGleb Budman co-founded Backblaze, a cloud storage and backup company, and has been its CEO since 2007 and board chair since January 2021. He was previously senior director of product management at SonicWall and vice president of products at MailFrontier, which SonicWall acquired, and founded two earlier startups.\n\n### What does Backblaze make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Backblaze B2 from Backblaze. Object storage at $6.95 a TB-month with the first 10 GB free, egress free up to three times what you store and $0.01 a GB after, and no charge for most API calls.\n\n### How are Gleb's tools graded?\n\nBackblaze B2 is graded A, 79.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.backblaze.com/company/about\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/glebbudman\n- https://www.backblaze.com/\n- https://www.backblaze.com/company/contact\n- https://www.backblaze.com/help\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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