Ben Sigelman On Raising Over $70M To Change The DNA Of Software Development

Ben Sigelman is a Co-founder & CEO at LightStep, which is a company that makes complex microservice applications more transparent and reliable. The company has raised over 70 million from top-tier investors like Sequoia Capital, Redpoint, Harrison Metal, Cowboy Ventures, and Altimeter Capital, to name a few.

In this episode, you will learn:

How Ben and his cofounders shortlisted startup ideas
How kids change your outlook of life and work
How to play the cards you’ve been dealt
Minimizing stress by reframing the situation
What I learned about pivots and failure from a leadership coach
A different approach to enterprise sales
Ben’s unique approach to fundraising and meeting investors
Why you should build out a full executive team as early as possible

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An expert in distributed tracing, he is the co-author of the OpenTracing standard which is a Linux Foundation project via the CNCF. Previously, Ben spent nine years at Google where he ate lots of snacks and designed several large (~1M-process) distributed systems. The most significant of these were Dapper, an always-on distributed tracing system; and Monarch, a high-availability time series collection, storage, and query system.