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Assaf Resnick

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
190 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

I'll pass on that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

A lot of good ones that, that, um, I'm very proud to have been part of and, uh, some still very, very good friends and, and, uh, colleagues.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

Well, I wouldn't say I didn't expect that it did well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

Um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

I'd say probably one that just comes to mind, but I don't know if it's necessarily one of my favorites.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

We invested out of Israel in a company called Snap2, which did a very interesting company that did...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

Back in the day when not everyone and their mother had a smartphone, particularly in developing nations, was able to do a lot of porting of mobile applications to what was called feature phones at the time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

So imagine folks in developing countries that don't necessarily have 4G connections and fancy touchscreen phones, and they want to be able to use apps like Facebook and Snapchat and Twitter and LinkedIn as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

It did just a really, really good job of bringing kind of modern mobile connectivity and apps to the developing world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

We're bought by Facebook, and now we're really part of the charge of leading what Facebook is doing around bringing that kind of mobile connectivity to the developing world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

So essentially what we do at a very high level is automate the ability of human beings in IT operations to keep up with a data center that's radically involved.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

So think of the folks in IT operations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

So the world spends over a trillion dollars a year in IT operations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

And in very, very broad buckets, you can think of that in three very, very big buckets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

Folks who build and scale software, folks who build and scale infrastructure, and then folks in what's called service operations that actually have to keep all that software and all that infrastructure running.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

Those can be called network operations engineers, what's called the NOC.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

They can be called DevOps engineers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

They can be called site reliability engineers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

A very, very big chunk of all that IT spend is towards engineers that actually have to keep the lights on.