Sentry, every mention

How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder) Jun 19, 2025 · 82 mentions

• ▶ 0:06 Brett Berson For today's episode, I'm excited to sit down with David Kramer, who's the co-founder and now chief product officer of Sentry, one of the most widely used application monitoring tools for developers. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 6:17 David Cramer And then, you know, century was born out of one of those opportunities, but 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 15:16 David Cramer Some people didn't use some of it, you know, 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…
• ▶ 16:08 David Cramer And I knew, like, Century already had a lot of adoption at that point. 7 times in the scene
• ▶ 24:40 David Cramer Every day at Sentry, I would run this script. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 28:48 David Cramer And frankly, a lot of bootstrap businesses, they usually do not look like century or I don't know where VSCO is at these days, but like VSCO is like famously bootstrapped. 5 times in the scene
• ▶ 34:12 David Cramer But I did, and like, fortunately, it was not good software at the time, and they were using it to discuss, and I joined, and like, the first day I caused this massive outage, and the outage was worse because of Sentry.
• ▶ 36:56 David Cramer And now the mistake I made, it turns out to not be a mistake in hindsight is like all these companies were using Sentry. 7 times in the scene
• ▶ 42:41 David Cramer Um, and so if you have not done that, I don't have great advice cause I've not yet repeated that, or we've not yet repeated that century. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 49:00 David Cramer And now for me, the things that matter to me from ROI and Century of marketing are our brand awareness. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 52:53 David Cramer Even today, we can't control sales of the company. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 58:15 David Cramer There's no excitement, like impressiveness, you know, and I'll, I'll give you my version at century. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:06:19 David Cramer Like lots of people know what Sentry does.
• ▶ 1:10:47 David Cramer We had a century, 10 years ago, we were, it was sort of the, the beginning of this JavaScript narrative we have today where JavaScript's kind of permeated every day and it's all these UIs, these fancy applications. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:17:07 David Cramer And what I mean by that is every hire that has not worked out for a century, I kind of felt like it was not going to work out, but I went through with it anyways. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:19:15 Brett Berson How do you define marketing and what is the role of marketing in century story? 10 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:27:33 David Cramer I was convinced of that pretty early on at Sentry, though, because, like, 5 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:30:59 David Cramer I would tell you I'm at Sentry and I've been capable of building Sentry because I'm very competitive in a sense of like, I want nobody else to exist. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:40:14 David Cramer And so, like, we have this open source pledge thing. 4 times in the scene