David Cramer
Co-founder & CPO, Sentry. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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David Cramer created Sentry as an open-source error monitoring side project that expanded into a developer observability platform valued at over $3 billion. He previously worked as an early infrastructure engineer at Disqus and served as Sentry's CEO and CTO before becoming Chief Product Officer.
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13said about them ↓ Everything David Cramer said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Cramer: Most technology companies fail to invest in their brand
“I kind of believe like the way you build distribution is like brand is like really, really important. And most technology companies do not invest in brand.”
Cramer: Windows is much better than Mac for work these days
“I am a Microsoft loyalist now. And I was like the old school, like hate on windows kind of guy, you know, and now I use windows almost exclusively for like even work. Fortunately, I just don't need to log into certain things, and I love it. Like, I actually th…”
Cramer: Enterprise software startups mistakenly abandon their long-tail SMB customers
“One thing I see people do is they grow over time, they grow their business, become enterprise companies, and then they forget about what got them there. They forget about the long tail customer, the SMB or the mid market or something. And so many people do thi…”
Cramer: Sentry's open-source core technology is used by every single competitor
“All the tech that makes Sentry valuable is permissive open source. And for example, we have this one technology used by every single competitor in the world, you know, from the biggest to the smallest. We give that away for free.”
Cramer: Sentry ran a billboard campaign mocking corporate CEOs
“We have this open source pledge thing. You can kind of figure out that we ran it, but, like, we put up billboards with these funny-looking faces on them that, like, made fun of CEOs and stuff, and it's like, activism.”
Cramer: San Francisco's tech echo chamber is a net positive
“And so I'm a big fan of the echo chamber that is San Francisco. It's good and bad, but generally more positive.”
Cramer: Open source code gave him every real job in tech
“Every job I've gotten, every real job has been like, oh, they knew who I was because they used my code already. And so for anybody that says open source doesn't give you anything, it gives you quite a lot.”
Cramer: Major late-2000s Django projects relied on his third-party libraries
“I would say pretty much if you were building a Django thing in that era and you were actually trying to do anything of substance, you were using something I had written, not necessarily in the core of Django, but like some third party thing, like century was b…”
Cramer: Sentry would never have reached current scale staying strictly open-source
“I think the problem is if we had waited years and we had just say worked on the open source version of Sentry, which is still exists roughly. It's self-hosted. I don't know. I don't think we ever would have gotten here.”
Cramer: Sentry lacks product-market fit beyond its core error monitoring product
“We have some stuff that looks promising, but like I would not claim we have product market fit on, on the rest of our suite yet.”
Cramer: Why he gave up board control and hired his own replacements
“I gave up board control. I hired a CEO to take my job. I hired a CTO to take my job.”
Cramer: Direct sales now account for one-third of Sentry's revenue
“And I think today, a third of revenue is sales, which is not that much at our scale, right?”
Cramer: FedRAMP and China expansion are among Sentry's lowest roadmap priorities
“FedRAMP will be one of the last things we ever do, or maybe China, one of these really nuanced, complicated things to pull off that takes lots of resourcing, last thing we'll ever do, because one, the bucket of customers is smaller, not the dollars of customer…”
Cramer: Mild feedback like 'that seems useful' signals a lack of PMF
“My version of product market fit is when a customer like emotionally viscerally reacts in a positive way. And what I mean by this is like, here, here's the counter version. Oh, that seems useful. Not runaway. Like either the customer's wrong. The product is us…”
Cramer: JavaScript developers remain tech's largest and fastest-growing segment every year
“And that is like the P zero of the entire company is like, we have to solve JavaScript first. And it's because we recognize that was the growth of the industry. And I think, I don't remember where I got this data, I just quote it forever, was the first year wh…”
Cramer: Sentry gets no positive ROI from most conferences it attends
“We're at a lot of conferences, for example, we don't get ROI out of most of those.”
Cramer: Sentry reached $600K in profitable revenue before raising venture capital
“We had, so we're a little bit different. Like we were bootstrapped on the business side. We had a couple thousand paid customers. Like, 600 K or something before we fundraised or profitable, if you will, but you know, profitable is that we didn't pay ourselves…”
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