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Joyent company history timeline

2004

The name Joyent was coined by David Paul Young in the second half of 2004, and some early funding obtained from Peter Thiel.

2005

More funding was disclosed in July 2005 with Young as executive officer and director.

2009

Joyent raised venture capital for the first time in November 2009 from Intel and Dell.

In 2009, it sold off both Strongspace and Bingodisk to ExpanDrive.

In 2009, Joyent acquired Reasonably Smart, a cloud startup company with products based on JavaScript and Git.

2010

In 2010, Joyent purchased LayerBoom, a Vancouver-based startup that provides solutions for managing virtual machines running on Windows and Linux.

2012

Young left the company in May 2012, and Hoffman took over as interim chief executive until the appointment of Henry Wasik in November 2012.

2013

Hoffman stepped down from his position as the company's chief technical officer in September 2013 and took a new position at Ericsson the next month.

2014

Bryan Cantrill was appointed CTO in his place in April 2014, with Mark Cavage assuming Cantrill's former VP engineering role.

In October 2014, Joyent raised an additional $15 million in series D funding from existing investors.

2016

On June 16, 2016, Samsung announced that it was acquiring Joyent.

2019

On June 6, 2019, Joyent announced that their Triton public cloud would be shut down on November 9, 2019.

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