As seen on Forbes. For developer-driven software companies, community is everything. After all, if your business relies on a rabidly loyal, evangelical developer following to spur viral growth and bottoms-up adoption of your product, you first need to foster andRead More…
As seen on Forbes. I’ve written frequently about how the next wave of developer-focused software companies will fuel a $1 trillion enterprise software market, driven by trends such as free open source platforms and flexible API building blocks. The marketRead More…
What do companies as diverse as Carhartt, Hulu, IBM, McDonald’s, and Facebook have in common? Their developers all use Vercel, a platform to develop, preview, and ship front-end websites, to build and deploy their websites. Whether a developer is buildingRead More…
Sometimes the brightest software companies are born out of necessity. That’s the case with StarTree, whose founders built the company’s core technology while working as engineers at LinkedIn. GGV is excited to invest in the company’s $24 million Series ARead More…
On episode #49 of Founder Real Talk, my partner Hans Tung (who cross-listed this episode on his podcast, Evolving for the Next Billion) and I interviewed Josh Silverman, the CEO of Etsy. Under Josh’s watch, Etsy’s valuation has increased overRead More…
For the past several Decembers, I’ve been sharing a list of my favorite books from the year. This year I added some of my top podcast episodes as well. If you’re interested in my favorites from prior years, check out 2019,Read More…
I really enjoyed this conversation with my good friend Susan St Ledger, the current President, Worldwide Field Operations at Splunk and incoming President, Worldwide Field Operations at Okta, on this episode of Founder Real Talk. Susan is an amazing personRead More…
As reported in Forbes. The Covid-19 pandemic has upended almost every facet of our lives; enterprise software companies, from startups to multibillion-dollar public companies, have not been immune to 2020’s headwinds. Yet this sector also benefited from the mass shiftRead More…
I had a great time chatting with Karthik Rau, the Founder and CEO of SignalFx. Karthik started SignalFx in ’13 and grew the company as CEO all the way through to its successful acquisition by Splunk just over six yearsRead More…
I’m really excited to bring you episode #44 of Founder Real Talk with Barr Moses, the Co-founder & CEO of Monte Carlo Data. Previously, Barr was VP at Gainsight where she helped scale the company 10x in revenue and workedRead More…