How A Coder Launched A $375 Mil Company From His Living Room – with Lew Cirne

Lew Cirne, New Relic, Customer Acquisition, Hiring, SaaS (software as a service), Scaling, Sell Your Business

When his big idea came to him, Lew Cirne says, “I was so excited about the idea I almost drove off the road.” His vision for a way to make any Java program self-diagnostic led him to create Wily Technology. In this interview, you’ll hear how he turned that idea into a company, how he got his first customers, how he hired people to help him grow it, and why he sold it eight years later to CA for $375 million.

You’ll also hear how he’s taking what he learned at Wily and using it to grow his current company, New Relic, which reached an 85% share of app performance management in the Rails space within eight months of launching.

Lew Cirne

New Relic

Lew Cirne is the founder and CEO of New Relic, the leading SaaS based provider of application performance management tools.

 

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