Crashlytics

“And so they were willing to make Crashlytics free. They were willing to help us grow our team significantly so that we could build adjacent products, which we ultimately did and became a suite known as fabric.”

“Our team had not only has tripled, but only one person has left in that time.”

“Which I believe is used on over a billion devices today, and they were ultimately acquired for two hundred and fifty nine million dollars by Twitter.”

“What I would have done in retrospect is sought some commitment to continue to report to that person for X period of time. I don't think it's fair or actually good to say, Hey, I want to indefinitely report to this person. You want to move around as the company…”

“So today Crashlytics is installed on well, well over a billion devices. We're on substantially every active mobile device on earth.”

“By the time that we were four months old, we had the startup DNA profile of a startup that's about two years old.”

“Prior to Digits, Wayne and Jeff co-founded Crashlytics, which was acquired by Twitter for a nine-figure sum in January, and then acquired from Twitter by Google in 2017.”

“We were very, very thoughtful with how we built the Crashlytics team. And believe it or not, a large portion of that team is now the Digits team, and we're still working together nine years later.”

“So at Crashlytics, we took an incredibly cash-constrained approach, because we were conscious, honestly, of the challenges of the developer tool space. And so for that company, we only ever raised six million in funding. We only ever spent three million of it.…”

“So, now happy to say that Crashlytics runs on five billion monthly active devices required by Google.”

“Just over 12 months after launch, we hit three hundred million MAUs, and then Twitter acquired us.”

“Today Crashlytics is on five or six billion MAU, roughly every active smartphone on earth.”

“We scaled from zero to three hundred million phones in 12 months.”