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The 3 Pillars of Product-Led Businesses

OpenView Labs

Back in 2014, we led Datadog’s Series B for a few big reasons: they solved a pain point nearly universal among developers, delivered value to customers without any friction, and tended to grow rapidly inside an account after the initial adoption. At that time, there wasn’t yet a term for what’s now known as Product-Led Growth (PLG).

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The 3 Pillars of Product Led Growth

OpenView Labs

Back in 2014, we led Datadog’s Series B for a few big reasons: they solved a pain point nearly universal among developers, delivered value to customers without any friction, and tended to grow rapidly inside an account after the initial adoption. At that time, there wasn’t yet a term for what’s now known as product led growth (PLG).

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Kellblog's 10 Predictions for 2020

Kellblog

As I’ve been doing every year since 2014, I thought I’d take some time to write some predictions for 2020, but not without first doing a review of my predictions for 2019. The ongoing rise of DevOps. The cloud has driven DevOps to become one of the hottest areas of software in recent years with big public company successes (e.g.,