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Wow. 2015 was quite the year for Clearbit! It's tricky fitting everything we've done into a single blog post, considering last year encompassed most of our young company's life, but here goes. In 2015 we went from a team of two, to seven. From 50 customers to 500. From processing a few hundred API requests a day to millions. We now power the business intelligence data behind much of the valley, and this year we're setting our sights much higher. I'm very proud of how far we've come in a year,

Startup stock options often [http://zachholman.com/posts/fuck-your-90-day-exercise-window/] get a bad [http://jvns.ca/blog/2015/12/30/do-the-math-on-your-stock-options/] rap [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10811570], and with good reason. Employees who've given years to a company can end up with nothing — or have to fork over huge amounts of money and suffer a large tax liability. Quite honestly this sucks! To be fair, the system we have in place isn't necessarily the fault of companies a

In Part 1 [https://clearbit.com/blog/servers-part-one] of this series we gave you an overview of the deployment process at Clearbit. In this post I'm going to talk about our how we use fleet to run our services. > Note: We use Amazon's EC2 system. In this article when I refer to a machine I'm really talking about an EC2 instance. I've used machine to avoid confusion with an instance (runnning process) of an application. Life before Fleet Before migrating over to CoreOS/Fleet we were using dok

Providing exceptional support has been a huge part of our culture from day one, which is why the entire team responds to support emails and lives in our Slack support channel. Today we are expanding our offering by launching our new Support Help Desk [https://support.clearbit.com]. [https://support.clearbit.com] We love working with customers individually, but in the interest of creating an easily searchable knowledgebase we packaged up the majority of our commonly asked questions to provide

In the 9 months since we released our Google Sheets add-on [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearbit-sheets/gajjckfhhadoningiaiebpegkfdfnaje?hl=en] , we have had tons of positive feedback. After the exclamations of how mind-blowingly awesome it was. The first question was. Can I use this in Excel? As of last week, we can finally say yes! We have partnered with Blockspring to bring our APIs to spreadsheets everywhere. Blockspring is an new platform that lets you access all your favor