Crashlytics grew to 300 million devices in its first 12 months
Jeff Seibert · Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next · Feb 10, 2022 · at 7:15
Jeff Seibert, co-founder of Crashlytics and Digits, reflects on Crashlytics' viral developer adoption prior to its acquisition by Twitter.
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“We ended up going from zero to three hundred million devices within the first 12 months.”
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