About this episode

The episode explores the journey of BisectHosting and its co-founder Max Podkidkin in the game server hosting industry.

Game server hosting is the layer nobody thinks about until it breaks. In this episode, Kalie Moore sits down with Max Podkidkin, Co-Founder and CEO of BisectHosting, to unpack how a Minecraft server that went dark for three days turned into a 15-year infrastructure business serving hundreds of thousands of customers across more than 140 countries. Max put the first hardware on a credit card, recruited a co-founder he met in his own Minecraft community, and built the company to nearly 100 employees without ever raising outside capital. They get into what those early years actually looked like, including hiding a laptop on a cart at a factory job to answer support tickets, the two years he and Andrew worked together over text before meeting face to face, and how a US and UK split gave them 24/7 coverage with a team of two. The conversation also covers how the hosting business really works, from the economics of renting out resources to why running a server at home costs more than most people think. Max explains why BisectHosting has turned down repeated acquisition offers while private equity consolidates the market around them, how the team gets into a studio's Discord and…

People in this episode

Host: Kalie Moore

Guest: Max Podkidkin

Topics covered

• game server hosting
• entrepreneurship
• private equity
• community management
• AI in gaming

Keywords

• game server hosting
• BisectHosting
• Minecraft
• private equity
• community management
• AI
• support tickets

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BisectHosting

Products: Minecraft

Places: US, UK

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