Alex Solomon

Co-Founder, PagerDuty · 1 appearance on the record.

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Alex Solomon co-founded PagerDuty in 2009 after working as an engineer at Amazon, serving as founding CEO until 2016 and later as CTO and General Manager. He guided the incident response platform through its Y Combinator incubation and 2019 IPO, and has also backed enterprise software startups including Supabase.

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Assertion Contradicted

Solomon: Cloud app SLAs require financial refunds for outages

“Yeah, many of these applications have SLAs, so if the app is not up, you're actually, you have to refund money back, and so there's a lot more pressure on the IT department to deliver a hundred percent uptime.”

Alex Solomon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:58 a16z Podcast | Harnessing the DevOps Movement -- Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls

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Opinion

Alex Solomon: On-premises IT control is a false illusion

“Yeah, I mean, I think the on-prem you know, the control aspect of it is, is a false illusion. I mean, the complexity of these systems is so high.”

Alex Solomon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:38 a16z Podcast | Harnessing the DevOps Movement -- Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls