Jeff Seibert
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And so I ended up giving notice at Box and starting my next thing.
Yeah.
So it turns out mobile apps crashed.
So if you think in 2011, we're two years after the sort of launch of iOS apps, right?
Those came in 2009.
Everyone's building apps.
The app store is flooded with reviews.
10% of them mentioned the word crash.
It was a very unstable, very early platform.
And I became obsessed with crash reporting through my work at Box because we were facing our own internal issues with our mobile work and our macOS work and ended up building a prototype on the side.
And I asked Box, hey, can I work on this nights and weekends?
Would that be cool?
And to their complete credit, they were like, yep, great.
Go for it.
It's totally unrelated to Box.
And if it's good, maybe we'll use it.
And so started building.
Exactly.
And that's what I asked them for.
And they let me own it free and clear.