AppDynamics from idea to a $3.7 billion company
It all started with a realization. Two, actually. Jyoti Bansal noticed that more of the software that controls our lives will be in the cloud, and that it would all eventually break.
So he decided to create a company to help the people who make software understand what was going wrong so they could fix it.
This is the story of how he turned this vision into AppDynamics and why he sold the company to Cisco.
Jyoti Bansal
AppDynamicsJyoti Bansal is the founder of AppDynamics which gives users real-time insight from your apps using Application Performance Monitoring & Management—how they’re being used, how they’re performing, where they need help.
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