"Developer Tools"
Articles and mentions
Heavybit Welcomes New Member: Continue
Heavybit's announcement when Continue joined the portfolio, an open-source tool that brings LLM assistance directly into the IDE.
“I'm excited to welcome our newest portfolio company, Continue, which gives software engineers the power to streamline their development process using large language models (LLMs) and hit flow state faster and longer.”
Cloud Native StartupFest 2023
I co-hosted Cloud Native StartupFest at KubeCon NA 2023 with Erica Brescia and Dave Zilberman: fundraising in the post-2022 capital environment, 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, a list of early-stage investors built with Tribe Capital.
“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.