Thank you, Gostev

[Gostev]

Thank you all for your kind and warm words. Coming from actual customers, they are very important to me and I will carry them in my heart.

What amazed me the most was Gostev became one of the top people at Veeam and he still responded to random forum threads and was deeply involved in the technical issues being posted here. He still stayed true to his roots when all we had were these forums back when Veeam was starting out and he did not stop contributing and helping us when needed.

Honestly, from my perspective it was becoming increasingly more important to stay close to the users and their feedback with each promotion, not the other way around. I really don't get it how senior product folks can do their job well without talking to their customers for hours each and every day. Especially at C level, where you must take all the decisions yourself. Of course, may be they are all super smart visionaries and I'm just dumb, that is also a possibility!

[e.rottier]

Let me tell you Gostev, my colleague told me recently that you Veeam guys being to close to your customers is 50% of the reason why we are your customer! (the other half is a fine working product ofc.)

Veeam should cherish your kind of people. Hopefully from their heart, or if nothing else, a business perspective.

[gtelnet]

@Gostev,

I truly enjoyed each of our conversations at every VeeamON and at the Vanguard trip in Prague. I honestly can't envision Veeam without you. You were the public representation of every fellow geek who works in the shadows and you did so with boldness and wit. Congratulations and I wish the best for you. You will be missed.

Greg

[tinto1970]

Honestly, from my perspective it was becoming increasingly more important to stay close to the users and their feedback with each promotion, not the other way around. I really don't get it how senior product folks can do their job well without talking to their customers for hours each and every day. Especially at C level, where you must take all the decisions yourself. Of course, may be they are all super smart visionaries and I'm just dumb, that is also a possibility!

that's a really special fact(*) in Veeam, and I hope it will last longer.

(*) that's why everytime I recieve an offer for a good job in a company that's not using Veeam, I really struggle in the process of the yes/no decision

[J.Leeflang]

Gostev was probably the very first person I ever interacted with back in the days when Veeam could only be licensed with a credit card.
From the very beginning, he answered every question, cleared every doubt, and made me feel genuinely supported.
Because of him, we took the leap. We walked away from the declining BackupExec platform and placed our trust in Veeam.
And within just a few years, Veeam became our standard backup and recovery solution for 99% of our customers — something I could never have imagined at the start.

What truly made the difference were the countless moments on the forums:
question after question, concern after concern — and every single time, Gostev replied with honesty, clarity, and a kind of dedication you rarely see in this industry.
Those interactions are what made Veeam my personal number one vendor to work with.
It felt like someone was really standing behind the product — and behind us.

And then there were the Monday newsletters.
They were brilliant: direct, insightful, and often exactly what I needed at that moment.
More than once, I forwarded them straight to upper management because they summed up, better than I ever could, what needed to be said and what decisions needed to be made.

Gostev didn’t just represent Veeam — he was the reason Veeam felt different.
Reliable. Human.
And trusted.

THANK YOU Gostev!

[mlange]

What amazed me the most was Gostev became one of the top people at Veeam and he still responded to random forum threads and was deeply involved in the technical issues being posted here. He still stayed true to his roots when all we had were these forums back when Veeam was starting out and he did not stop contributing and helping us when needed.

And not just here, he was decently active in Veeam related threads in the sysadmin subreddit and I'd imagine other subreddits as well.

[MPECSInc]

When we were building more clusters than standalone Hyper-V servers the in-guest backup we were using at the time became a bear to manage. Then, there was the cost in resources to run the backup solution in-guest.

While evaluating what backup product to run with back then, and there were a lot, it was ultimately your blunt honesty about the product, its strengths, and weaknesses needing more love that brought us to choose Veeam.

Over the years, your honesty about what needs to be addressed within the product confines was always refreshing because I learned to trust that Veeam _did_ have our best interests at heart.

I am very grateful for your hard work over the years Mr. Gostev.

There are few in our industry that would be able to look back over time and see such a strong, honest, and faithful to the _customer_ product team member over that entire time period.

That man is definitely you! :0)

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.

[coadyho]

It's this newsletter and the honest and thorough responses from Gosteve in the forum made me think Veeam is truly a product that listens to its customers!
Thank you!

[juanmachado]

Wait a minute ...

What happened to Gostev??? Veeam is what it is because of you.

[tgx]

Sounds like he was forced out.
Next we'll be hearing they are being acquired by Broadcom.

[d.artzen]

Please don't even joke about that, you're giving me nightmares.