Heroku
5 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 1, 2018 by Adam Gross · said 20 times in 4 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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brought up most by Jason Lemkin (5), Adam Gross (5), Gabe Monroy (3), Russell Smith (2), Rachel Wolan (2)
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2024 8 mentions in 1 episode
2023 3 mentions in 1 episode
2021 2 mentions in 1 episode
2018 7 mentions in 1 episode
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Jan 1, 2018 positive
Gross: Infrastructure choices are the single most determinative decision for SaaS companies
“Your infrastructure choice, your platform choice, is your destiny. It is the single most determinative, ah, decision that your organization will make, and will have profound implications that will ripple across the rest of your, ah, go to market strategy, your…”
Jan 1, 2018 negative
Gross: Building proprietary data centers is no longer credible for most companies
“It is not credible for an organization, unless you're truly one of the top three technology organizations in the world, to do that. Net, if your organization is thinking about building and running its own data centers, good luck. Because that's no longer a thi…”
Jan 1, 2018 positive
Smith: Rainforest QA runs on Heroku, saving up to four ops hires
“So, at Rainforest, we run almost exclusively on Heroku. We use some other stuff as well, but that means we don't have very many ops people. This has brought us tons of focus. It saved us two, three, four ops people. We don't have a team. All those engineers ar…”
Mar 15, 2024 positive
Gross: Heroku's 10-Person Team Built the Equivalent of Google's Infrastructure
“And they did some of the work that they did in the size of that team. They did the equivalent of Kubernetes and what Google was doing with buildings full of people with 10 people in a room. Still, I don't appreciate, I don't know that Technical brilliance of t…”
Mar 15, 2024
Gross: Heroku grew enterprise revenue from 5% to 50%
“Part of the joy for me at Baroku was really being able to tie those businesses together, take what was almost exclusively a credit card online business, builds an enterprise business on top of that, that by the time I left was about, went from five percent to …”