why aren't all 6 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
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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.”
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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…”
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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?”
Assertion Partly supported
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…”
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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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Cramer: Sentry's core error monitoring has barely changed in 15 years
“The core version of Sentry, the air monitoring component, does not look that different than it did 1015 years ago.”