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Their dream is that developers go to tech events, like hackathons,
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conferences and meetups. They see a new
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[API](/application-programming-interfaces.html) or technical
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<a href="/application-programming-interfaces.html">API</a> or technical
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product that looks interesting.
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<img src="/img/190626-dev-led-sales/05-code.jpg" width="100%" class="shot rnd outl" alt="Code in a text editor.">
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Immediately developers at the event implement the API in their own
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projects.
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<img src="/img/190626-dev-led-sales/06-joint-success.jpg" width="100%" class="shot rnd outl" alt="Your revenue grows with their usage.">
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Boom, success!
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<img src="/img/190626-dev-led-sales/07-early-stage.jpg" width="100%" class="shot rnd outl" alt="Early stage example dev-led sales companies.">
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It seems like there are examples of this success story across many
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early-stage and mid-stage companies.
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Rollbar and DataDog are doing well by focusing on developers for new
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monitoring and analytics tools.
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<img src="/img/190626-dev-led-sales/08-public-companies.jpg" width="100%" class="shot rnd outl" alt="Public and large private successful dev-led sales companies.">
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Then you have the massive success stories of developer-focused companies,
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such as publicly-traded [Okta](https://www.okta.com/),
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[Pluralsight](https://www.pluralsight.com/), [Slack](https://slack.com/)
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and [Twilio](https://www.twilio.com/). Still private
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[Stripe](https://stripe.com/) recently raised more venture capital money
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at a $22 billion valuation which is more than those four public companies.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS), while not independent of its parent company,
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arguably is by far the leader in cloud computing infrastructure due to
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its initial and continuing focus on bottoms-up developer product adoption.
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But how does that startup dream match the reality of the work and skills
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required to execute on the vision?
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