Jeff Seibert
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
All right.
And so, yeah, Crashlytics was all about scale.
So we launched, we got very lucky with timing.
We ended up going from zero to 300 million devices within the first 12 months.
How did you do that?
It went viral through developer ecosystems.
We had built this tool.
It saved developers a ton of time.
It told them in under two seconds the line number of code they needed to fix.
It just spread like wildfire across mobile app development.
That's what really got Twitter interested because all of a sudden, we had built a device footprint larger than Twitter's in just 12 months.
Yeah, it wasn't 38.
It was over 100, well over 100.
And that was mostly stock, yes.
Okay.
And their motivation was, hey, mobile is obviously the next big thing.
We need a mobile developer platform.
Twitter had recently made a mistake and sort of killed off a good portion of its API platform.
And we were sort of brought in to reinvigorate that and lead it going forward.
Took some off the table, held some.