"Developer Tools"
Articles and mentions
Cloud Native StartupFest 2023
Jesse Robbins co-hosted Cloud Native StartupFest at KubeCon NA 2023 with Erica Brescia and Dave Zilberman. Tactical advice on fundraising, open source business models, and what investors actually look for.
“Open source is not a business model. Open source is a movement. We're still figuring out the business models.”
What to Know About the Modern Incident Response Lifecycle
Heavybit's incident management guide quotes me on why teams only get good at incident response when they treat the whole lifecycle as one discipline.
“Teams only get good at this when they embrace the whole process and each of its steps.”
The Seed 100: The Best Early-Stage Investors of 2021
Business Insider named me to the 2021 Seed 100, citing my seed investments in Chef, Conjur, LaunchDarkly, and Zymergen, and the fire-service line about who to call in an emergency.
“Robbins is the right investor to call in an emergency.”
A Developer's View Into Blockchain Network Architecture
I joined a Blockdaemon panel at Heavybit with Brian Behlendorf, Jed McCaleb, and Jake Craige to look at blockchain infrastructure through a developer-tools lens.
Building Companies that Devs & DevOps Teams Love, And Avoiding Expensive Mistakes
Heavybit talk on the expensive mistakes developer-tools founders make, drawn from the ones I made building Chef from open source into an enterprise infrastructure company.