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This week, we’re bringing you the latest episode of the In Depth podcast featuring Jyoti Bansal, CEO and co-founder of Harness. Very few founders can say they’ve built multiple billion-dollar enterprise software companies. Jyoti Bansal is one of them. His first company, AppDynamics, sold to Cisco for $3.7B. He’s now the CEO and co-founder of Harness, a multi-billion dollar platform that automates software delivery for engineering teams. Bansal recently joined First Round Partner Brett Berson on our podcast, In Depth, to unpack how he’s pulled it off twice. Here’s a preview of what they cover: - Why Bansal sold AppDynamics to Cisco three days before IPO. Bansal opens up about the agonizing decision to take an offer from Cisco just days before he was set to ring the bell on Nasdaq.
- A painful breakup with Netflix as an early customer. Netflix was AppDynamic’s third customer — back when it was a DVD company. Then it pivoted to streaming, and its tech footprint exploded. That helped AppDynamics build a more mature product, but soon Netflix’s needs dominated the roadmap. Bansal shares why he made the tough call to part ways with a dream customer.
- How Harness runs “16 startups within a startup.” Bansal explains how he preserves teams’ autonomy as the company has scaled with a mini startup model for each product line.
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-The Review Editors
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