Sept. 9, 2021

SaaS Sprawl and Transparency: Scaling Internal Employee Directories with Alex Solomon, CTO and Co-founder at PagerDuty

SaaS Sprawl and Transparency: Scaling Internal Employee Directories with Alex Solomon, CTO and Co-founder at PagerDuty
SaaS Sprawl and Transparency: Scaling Internal Employee Directories with Alex Solomon, CTO and Co-founder at PagerDuty
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SaaS Sprawl and Transparency: Scaling Internal Employee Directories with Alex Solomon, CTO and Co-founder at PagerDuty
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It’s hard to know what to prioritize at a startup. Alex Solomon (CTO & Co-founder at PagerDuty) joins us to talk about the early days at PD and some critical decisions about transparency, documentation, employee experience, and more.

  • The story behind PagerDuty (1:15)
  • Launching product before feeling ready (8:00)
  • Employee experience in the early days (13:07)
  • Dutonium: building PD’s internal directory (15:48)
  • Transparency and being “open by default” (23:15)
  • SaaS Sprawl (24:37)
  • Alex’s advice to founders (26:44)
  • The future of PD (30:45)