Martin Mao, CEO of Chronosphere: $250 Million Raised to Build the Future of Observability

In today’s episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Martin Mao, CEO and co-founder of Chronosphere.io, a Cloud-Native Observability Platform that raised more than $250 million in funding and has been ranked as one of the top ten fastest growing SaaS companies ever, reaching unicorn status in just 2 years and four months. 

Topics Discussed:

• What Chronosphere does, the problem it solves, and the types of companies using the platform today. 
• The origin story behind the company — born from personally experiencing the problem while Martin and his co-founder working on the Observability team at Uber. 
• Why Chronosphere takes a top-down GTM motion. 
• How Martin thinks about category creation. 
• How Chronosphere engages firms like Gartner to educate them about how they see the market evolving and their PoV. 
• Three actionable takeaways that Martin attributes to the incredible growth of the company.
• The top challenges Chronosphere faced in the early days and how they overcame those challenges 
• Why investors are so excited about the opportunity to back the company with more than $250 million. 
• What personally excites Martin about the work he gets to do every day.  
• What’s in store for the future of the company and where Martin plans to take the company over the next 5 years.