Alex Solomon, PagerDuty CTO
Alex Solomon (CTO & Co-founder at PagerDuty) joins us to talk about the early days at PD and some critical decisions about transparency, documentation, employee experience, and more.
Alex Solomon
PagerDuty CTO
Alex Solomon, PagerDuty CTO
Alex Solomon (CTO & Co-founder at PagerDuty) joins us to talk about the early days at PD and some critical decisions about transparency, documentation, employee experience, and more.
1:15 The story behind PagerDuty
8:00 Launching product before feeling ready
13:07 Employee experience in the early days
15:48 Dutonium: building PD’s internal directory
23:15 Transparency and being “open by default”
24:37 SaaS Sprawl
26:44 Alex’s advice to founders
30:45 The future of PD
“We went through this really rapid growth phase and there was this explosion of systems, and you end up like getting crushed by the weight of all of these things and all of these silos that don't talk to each other.”
Alex Solomon
PagerDuty CTO
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