Martin Mao: the Story of Chronosphere ($1.6 Billion Valuation)

In today’s episode of Unicorn Builders, we speak with Martin Mao, CEO and co-founder of Chronosphere, 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.