Founders Talk Founders Talk #57

From dropout to CEO of Sentry and taking on New Relic

David Cramer dropped out of high school AND college, but that didn’t stop him. He ended up teaching himself programming and eventually landed his first job as the webmaster of a World of Warcraft community website. What a beginning… We talked through “the rough slog” period of Sentry and how David powered through to traction and enough profit for him and his partner to go full time, raise three rounds of funding, and take on New Relic.


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Adam Stacoviak

Adam Stacoviak

Austin, TX

Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Changelog

2018-11-06T18:47:20Z ago

The part where we talked about “the market” forcing you into change around your business that you’re not ready or willing to make has really stuck with me.

There are many folks who want to “keep it simple” and run a small business. Which works until competition comes in and forces you to level up to compete, or fall by the way side of “business and progress”.

That’s a hard thing about doing these hard things.

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