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Fundraising, exiting to Elastic and the future of Product Engineering | Rasmus Makwarth (CEO, Bucket)
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- Scaling DevTools
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- Oct 17, 2024
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- 1827
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Summary
In 2017, Rasmus Makwarth sold his previous APM (Application Performance Managment) startup Opbeat to Elastic for an undisclosed amount. Opbeat became Elastic APM, which became a big part of the Elastic Observability solution and Rasmus became Senior Director of Product Management - with a focus on Developer Experience. Today, Rasmus is the founder and CEO of Bucket.co - a feature flagging tool built for B2B teams. Bucket has raised $5.7m from investors such as Project A and Creandum. We dig into: The realities of fundraising on a deadline The role of San Francisco in fundraising - do you need to be there? How exit opportunities can come from unexpected sources and the importance of showing up The importance of building a great product What Rasmus learned at Elastic - one of the biggest DevTools in the world Why Bucket is betting on helping engineers at b2b companies understand how users use their features The future of product engineering Where to find Rasmus: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/makwarth/?originalSubdomain=dk Twitter/X https://x.com/makwarth Bucket https://bucket.co/ References Elastic https://elastic.co/ Opbeat acquisition announcement https://www.elastic.co/blog/welcome-opbeat-to-the-elastic-family Shay Banon - founder of Elastic https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimchy/ Gregory Tademoto - VP Global Business & Corporate Development https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregorytademoto/ To support Scaling DevTools, c heck out the Enterprise Ready Conf from WorkOS https://enterprise-ready.com/