# Gleb Budman (slim)

> Gleb Budman is co-founder of Backblaze. Backblaze B2 on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder, Backblaze.

Gleb 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.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glebbudman

## What Gleb builds

- [Backblaze B2](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/backblaze-b2.md), graded A, 79.2/100, in File storage & 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.

## Works with

- [Billy Ng](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/billy-ng/), Co-founder, Backblaze
- [Brian Wilson](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brian-wilson/), Co-founder, Backblaze
- [Casey Jones](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/casey-jones/), Co-founder, Backblaze
- [Damon Uyeda](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/damon-uyeda/), Co-founder, Backblaze
- [Nilay Patel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/nilay-patel/), Co-founder, Backblaze
- [Tim Nufire](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tim-nufire/), Co-founder, Backblaze

## Questions

### Who is Gleb Budman?

Gleb 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.

### What does Backblaze make?

Anchor Terminal lists Backblaze B2 from Backblaze.

### How are Gleb's tools graded?

Backblaze B2 is graded A, 79.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.backblaze.com/company/about
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/glebbudman
- https://www.backblaze.com/
- https://www.backblaze.com/company/contact
- https://www.backblaze.com/help

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