David Cramer dropped out of high school AND college, but that didn’t stop him. He ended up teaching himself programming and eventually landed his first job as the webmaster of a World of Warcraft community website. What a beginning… We talked through “the rough slog” period of Sentry and how David powered through to traction and enough profit for him and his partner to go full time, raise three rounds of funding, and take on New Relic.

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David Cramer – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Sentry.io
Sentry on crunchbase.com
Sentry raises $16M Series B from NEA and Accel to help developers squash bugs more quickly
Real-time crash reporting tool Sentry grabs $9 million from NEA & Accel

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From dropout to CEO of Sentry and taking on New Relic