Welcome to Caveat Founder, a regular series featuring founders sharing their experiences building developer facing companies, brought to you by Heavybit.
Gain insight into what it takes to build a successful developer facing company by hearing about big wins and epic fails directly from founders themselves.
In this inaugural episode we’re proud to host Parse founder Ilya Sukhar and Rainforest co-founder and CEO Fred Stevens-Smith.
Ilya and Fred talk through several of the pricing challenges developer facing companies encounter, they discuss the type of investors developer facing companies should look for, and they talk about the sometimes difficult transition from Founder to CEO.
Ilya Sukhar founded Parse, a provider of cloud services for mobile developers, in 2011 and served as CEO until being acquired by Facebook in 2013. Ilya continues to work on Parse and other platform products at Facebook.
Fred Stevens-Smith is the co-founder and CEO of Rainforest who provide QA as a service, making it simple and fast to test your webapp in multiple browsers.
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Producer: Ted Carstensen
Editor: Lucas Oswald
