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.