2024-10-11
1 小时 46 分钟John Nunemaker joins us to share his new thesis for acquiring Rails based SaaS apps. He's early days on his next big thing called Very Good Software and recently acquired Fireside, a podcast hosting service started by Dan Benjamin. This comes after many years since John's acquisition of a lifetime of Speakerdeck to GitHub, which laid the foundation for these moves.
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On today's show, we're joined by John Nunemaker.
He's sharing his new thesis for acquiring rails based SaaS applications.
He's early days on his next big thing called Very Good Software, and recently acquired Fireside, a podcast hosting service started by Dan Benjamin.
This comes after many years since John's acquisition of a lifetime of speaker deck to GitHub, which laid the foundation for these moves.
We discussed the importance of cash flow, customer retention, the challenges of SaaS, valuation of software companies, the risks and rewards of acquisition, his long term vision for Fireside and the other ventures.
We go deep and I know you're gonna love it.
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What's up, friends?
I'm here with Dave Rosenthal, CTO of Sentry.
So Dave, when I look at Sentry, I see you driving towards full application health, error monitoring, where things began, session replay, being able to replay a view of the interface a user had going on when they experienced an issue with full tracing, full data.
The advancements you're making with tracing and profiling, cron monitoring, co coverage, user feedback and just tons of integrations give me a glimpse into the inevitable future.