AppDynamics, every mention

He launched a free product for enterprise customers—then grew to $12M ARR in 2 years. | Bhaskar S... · PMF Show Mar 30, 2026 · 22 mentions

• ▶ 0:49 Bhaskar S. Once people who were at a company where they were using AppD left their job and went somewhere else and said, 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:34 Pablo Srugo So you're, uh, one of the founders of AppDynamics, a company that was acquired, I guess in the, in the late 20 tens for nearly four billion dollars. 5 times in the scene
• ▶ 5:12 Pablo Srugo You know, I'm non-technical, so maybe let's kind of, some of those examples were helpful, but maybe just as a very basic question, like, when you're talking about monitoring and the old versus the new, you know, of AppD, like, obviously…
• ▶ 8:05 Pablo Srugo What was the impact of, you know, let's say the, the financial crash and the financial recession or whatever on app
• ▶ 25:50 Bhaskar S. And in fact, they, one of the tests they did was basically looking at the CPU, looking at the performance of a server that did not have, you know, AppD, and looking at one that had AppD. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 28:45 Pablo Srugo How fast did you guys grow? 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 29:30 Bhaskar S. Like, so 2010 early, we basically launched, you know, a free to use product that was like, just a, think of it as a premium thing, but it was called Abdelight, Abdynamics Light, right? 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 32:15 Bhaskar S. Working with the internal IT team there to sell AppDynamics to them. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 35:51 Bhaskar S. So I think the simple way of talking about maybe the parallels is that think of AppDynamics as how do you go from technical signal to, you know, what really happened and taking action on it, right?
• ▶ 41:25 Pablo Srugo For AppD, when did you feel like you'd found true product market fit?