David Cramer, founder of Sentry - why you should consider M&A

Luke Harries leads growth at ElevenLabs. Eleven Labs builds incredible AI voice models. Luke dives into why launches matter so much, the origin story of ElevenLabs and why a hackathon can change your life.Links:Luke Harries ElevenLabs   This episode is brought to you by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs. P.s. I used Eleven Labs without any edits for the transcript/subtitles.

Elston Baretto is the founder of Tiiny.host - the simplest place to put your work online. In this episode we talk about how Elston has been able to grow Tiiny to 70,000+ sign ups per month with content marketing. This episode is brought to you by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs. Links:- Tiiny.host - Elston Baretto - Ramen Club - Charlie Ward - Sabba - Veed 

Eric Allam is the cofounder of Trigger.dev. Trigger gives you open source background jobs. We talk about how Trigger iterated different versions until landing on something developers really want. And now the growth is crazy. And also, I use Trigger and it's genuinely a great product.This episode is brought to you by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs. Links:Eric Allam Trigger Trigger Open Source project 

Kyle is the cofounder of Depot.  Depot accelerates your Docker image builds and GitHub Actions workflows. Kyle shares how Depot were able to grow to $1M ARR and beyond with a very lean team.This episode is brought to you by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs. Links:Depot Kyle Galbraith 

This episode is a deep dive into DevTools marketing with Jason Lengstorf, founder of CodeTV.Links:Jason on XCodeTVJason's YouTubeThis episode is brought to you by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs. 

This episode is with Sunil Pai. He works at Cloudflare after his startup PartyKit was acquired. Previously he was on the React core team at Meta.He's a great guy. And obsessed with AI agents. This episode is brought to you by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs. Links:- Sunil Pai on X - Sunil Pai's site- Building agents with Cloudflare - PartyKit - Durable objects 

Thomas Paul Mann is the cofounder of Raycast. I use Raycast every day as a replacement for Spotlight. For me, shortcuts are the most useful feature. I put curl requests I commonly use as well as random things like email snippets. It's a massive time saver and really well built.Raycast is a genuinely well built product so Thomas talks quality, getting feedback and how they ship features. We also talk about their unique YC experience and how they've been building AI into Raycast. This episode is brought to you by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs. Links:RaycastRaycast Extensions StoreTerminal Coffee x RaycastThomas on Twitter/X

Russ D’Sa is the founder of LiveKit. They are an open source tool for real time audio and video for LLM applications and they power the voice chat for ChatGPT and Character AI.We discuss:- How lightning works (using ChatGPT/LiveKit)- How LiveKit started working with OpenAI- Why Russ turned down an early 20m acquisition offer- What it’s like to work with the fastest growing company (ever?)- How to prepare for massive scale challenges- Russ’s 3 letter twitter handleThis episode is brought to you by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign-On and audit logs. Links:- LiveKit  - Russ’s Twitter 

Pete Hamilton and Chris Evans are cofounders of Incident.io. Incident is an incident management tool. We discuss:How they think about brand and how it comes from their deep understanding of incident cultureLawrence’s article asking for new macbooks that went viralGallows humor in incidents Why incident.io started on Heroku despite being an incident response platform—and why “shipping fast” mattered more than “scaling perfectly.”The benefit of building for users who are just like youHow Incident is using GenAIThis episode is brought to you by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign-On and audit logs. Links:Pete Hamilton on Twitter Chris Evans on TwitterIncident Macbook articleThe flight plan that brought UK airspace to its kneesHow Netflix drives reliability across their organizationNote: this was recorded on 13th December 2024.

David Cramer, co-founder of Sentry talks M&As and why they should be utilized more when you don’t achieve huge success. Plus we talk about the importance of good branding.We discuss:The biggest mistake small startup founders make by not exploring potential acquisitions.The role of ego in startupsProduct-market-fitHiring entrepreneurial talent and why acqui-hiring is so big.The significance of branding beyond just marketing – how it builds trust, recognition, and demand.Sentry’s approach to branding, emphasizing authenticity, community, and accessibility.What DevTools can learn from Liquid Death and PorscheWhy brand mattersThis episode is brought to you by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign-On and audit logs. https://workos.com/Links:David Cramer's blogDavid Cramer on XSentry