Ben Gilbert

All right, listeners, this is a great time to thank our friends at Sentry.

That's S-E-N-T-R-Y, like someone's standing guard.

And since this episode we are reflecting on 10 Years of Acquired, it's fitting to look at Sentry's journey, which actually looks a lot like our story.

They started in 2008 as a tiny open source project, not even a company.

And the goal was to solve one simple problem, alert me when something is broken.

It wasn't born out of a big budget or a funding round, no big strategy offsite, just a developer seeing something broken in the world and fixing it.

And the range of those companies is incredible.

Disney+, Duolingo, friends of the show over at Vercel and Anthropic.

There's Cloudflare, GitHub, Atlassian, also a ton of indie developers who are shipping features at two in the morning.

Sentry has just become a key part of how modern software gets built.

So as Acquired celebrates our own decade of learning and improvement, it is fitting to partner with a company that has been on a learning and improvement journey right along with the rest of the software industry over that same time.

Yes.

And then we did a part two to really dig ourselves deeper.

And you know what people don't love is part twos.

They really don't love part twos when they didn't love part one.

Exactly, exactly, exactly.

It's a necessary subset.

You never tune into something called part two without part one.

And so the dumbest thing you can do if you're focused on growth is have an underperforming part one followed by a part two.

Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.