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Harry Stebbings: Not nearly excited as I am, but I would love to kick of today Steve with a little bit about you. So thank you so much for joining me today, Steve. Having heard so many great things from Leo at Susa. Steve, it’s absolutely fantastic to have you on the show. Without further ado, I’m now very, very excited to hand over to Steve Newman, founder and CEO at Scalyr. I do also want to say a huge thank you to the wonderful Leo Polovets at Susa Ventures for the intro to Steve today. If that wasn’t enough, Steve also sat on the technical advisory board at Box for over three years.

Ann Arbour Softworks acquired by Ashton-Tate, and BitCraft, acquired by Macromedia. But before that, he founded two prior startups. As for Steve, prior to Scalyr he was the founder of Writely which was acquired by Google to be come the little known Google Docs. Steve has raised over 27 and a half million dollars in funding with Scalyr from many friends of the show, including Susa Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Shasta, and GV.

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I really would love to hear your thoughts.īut to the show today, and there’s nothing I love more than hearing incredible lessons learned from a serial entrepreneur over decades of starting SaaS companies, and that’s exactly the case today as I’m thrilled to welcome Steve Newman, founder and CEO at Scaylr, the startup that helps your devops team solve more problems in less time with log monitoring and analysis in seconds. You can make your suggestions on Instagram with two Bs. Harry Stebbings: We are back on the official SaaStr podcast with me, Harry Stebbings and it would be fantastic to hear your thoughts on who you would most like me to have on the show in the future. If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: * The hardest element about the move from tech co-founder to CEO? * Who does Steve believe is crushing it in the world of SaaS today? * What does Steve know now that he wishes he had known at the beginning?

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* How does Steve respond to PG’s “to scale, you have to do unscalable things”? What challenges and nuance does Steve present that founders must be wary of? How does Steve’s thinking here affect his view towards customization? Why does manual input not put a cap on scalability? What are the parameters for manual involvement to be scalable? * Why does Steve believe that you should not focus too much on numbers in the early days? What makes them deceiving at this stage? If not numbers, what should early stage founders be focusing on and measuring? Why does Steve believe that ARR is not the leading metric? What metrics should early stage SaaS founders really be prioritizing? * Why does Steve believe that you should involve customers very early in the process of developing your narrative? Where does Steve see most startups go wrong when it comes to messaging? How does one structure the feedback mechanism? How does one determine between feedback you integrate and feedback you do not? * How Steve made his way into the world of startups and SaaS over 30 years ago? What is the founding story with Scalyr and what was that a-ha moment? If that was not enough, Steve also sat on the Technical Advisory Board at Box for over 3 years. Before that he founded 2 prior startups, Ann Arbour Softworks (acq by Ashton-Tate) and BitCraft (acquired by Macromedia). As for Steve, prior to Scalyr, he was the Founder of Writely which was acquired by Google to become the little known, Google Docs. Steve has raised over $27.5m in funding with Scalyr from many friends of the show including Susa Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Shasta and GV. Steve Newman is the Founder & CEO Scalyr, the startup that helps your devops team solve more problems in less time with log monitoring and analysis in seconds.

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