Webb Brown

Founder of @Kubecost. Former Google PM.

[OpenCost @open_cost]

Discover how the new OpenCost plugin for @headlamp_ui delivers a seamless experience for monitoring your K8s clusters.

Our latest blog covers step-by-step instructions on how to get started, including a video tutorial. 💡

🔗 https://t.co/gvZ3Qe5y3k

#Kubernetes #OpenSource

[Webb Brown @webb_brown]

@pokgak73 @pokgak73 Kubecost is a single helm install to deploy. What'd you find to be complex?

[Todd Jackson @tjack]

Big @firstround news today!

We’re launching Product-Market Fit Method (a free intensive 14-week experience for early founders building epic B2B SaaS companies) and publishing the first session on our internal framework for all to read (with benchmarks, Looker's real data, and tactical advice from iconic enterprise founders).

Even though finding product-market fit is the single most important thing for a startup, it’s still underexplored and seen as more art than science. We wanted to change that.

I’ve personally talked to hundreds of founders about this topic, digging into what they did in the first 6-9 months of company building. (We’ve published dozens of those interviews on The Review in our “Paths to PMF” series.) This video previews some of what we learned — thanks to @christinacaci, @zachperret, @lloydtabb, @jboehmig, & @jaltma for sharing their lessons!

In addition to that research, we’ve also drawn from our own 20 years of data and 500+ pre-PMF investments. What emerged was a very consistent set of patterns for sales-led B2B companies — the basis for our new framework and PMF Method’s 8 tactical sessions.

In the program, we help early founders discover what customers really want, build the right v1 product, and close their first enterprise sales. We ran a beta version late last year with a tight-knit group of founders (ex Stripe, Plaid, Airbnb, Twitter, Greenhouse, Grammarly) and the feedback was great — my personal favorite was: "I feel like I shaved 12 months off the time it would take us to get to PMF.”

Here are a few key dates and details:

- The Summer 2024 session of PMF Method runs 5/29 - 8/28.
- Application deadline is 11:59 PDT May 7th.
- Any early founder working on a new B2B SaaS company is welcome to apply. Bonus points if you’re technical, have a clear product idea but haven’t raised yet and are <12 months into working full time on your idea.
- PMF Method is 100% free. It costs you $0 and we own 0% of your company.

Like with The First Round Review and Angel Track, our mindset is to openly share knowledge that we’ve put hundreds of hours of work into curating with the broader startup community, and give it away for free. That’s why we’ve also published our framework, so every builder can use this resource, even if they don’t do the program (it’s linked in the next post).

Check out the links below for more details. Can’t wait to read applications!

[OpenCost @open_cost]

We're excited to announce the new OpenCost plugin for Backstage! If you're building a developer platform you're going to want to see your cloud costs in it, so check out the plugin today.

https://t.co/6zHgUVwzl7

[fraser @Fraser]

Our car window was smashed and my backpack stolen. Men rolled up in a car wearing ski masks and jumped out. Us and our four kids a few feet away. Laptop, phone, etc all gone. The city is suffering. This is not normal and we should demand better.

[Webb Brown @webb_brown]

@rshade98 @spf2001 @linuxfoundation @kubecost @FinOpsFdn @CloudNativeFdn @kubernetesio @PulumiCorp Had a blast, @rshade98! Hope we can do it more soon

[Webb Brown @webb_brown]

@ArthurSilvaSens @dnsmichi Thanks again for feedback! Any other places you feel where we can clarify?

[Webb Brown @webb_brown]

@ArthurSilvaSens @dnsmichi Updated to reflect our current practices: https://t.co/PXIXDXpGAx

[Webb Brown @webb_brown]

@dnsmichi @ArthurSilvaSens Thanks again for this feedback, would welcome any input on this resource! https://t.co/viVh3kSTZr

[Webb Brown @webb_brown]

@dnsmichi @ArthurSilvaSens Yes, absolutely. No token required to run all community features.

[Webb Brown @webb_brown]

@dnsmichi @ArthurSilvaSens Like that a lot @dnsmichi! How do you feel about that vs just plain helm install as shown here -- https://t.co/EBJ1txcCLE
With this approach, you could handle API token in app if you want to convert/trial paid tiers.

[Webb Brown @webb_brown]

@ArthurSilvaSens @dnsmichi For our enterprise terms, they are actually heavily based on Atlassian (which we always viewed as very user friendly). Would love to learn more if you feel we could do better!

[Webb Brown @webb_brown]

@ArthurSilvaSens No email required to install the latest Kubecost helm chart (Apache 2.0) : https://t.co/EBJ1txcCLE

[First Round @firstround]

Congrats to @webb_brown, Ajay Tripathy &amp; the entire @kubecost team for announcing its Series A! 🎉 With its open source tools, Kubecost makes it easier for developers to optimize and run Kubernetes at scale.

Learn more: https://t.co/0WnAqBhfsj

[Webb Brown @webb_brown]

@tjack @kubecost Thanks for all your support Todd! We wouldn’t be here without you and the whole @firstround team

[Webb Brown @webb_brown]

@anniecase1 ❤️❤️

[Webb Brown @webb_brown]

@gjain @kubecost Thanks for all your support from the beginning!

[Webb Brown @webb_brown]

Excited to announce our $25m Series A and to welcome David Cahn at Coatue to the @kubecost board. I’m so proud to be part of this team and am amazed by all we’ve accomplished already. More to come!

https://t.co/7Yei08YuzQ

[Stacy @MsStuMarkin]

WHAT A WEEK, WHAT A TEAM! Thank you @kubecost @NealOrmsbee @CloudNativeFdn @webb_brown @AlexThilen @robfaraj @cloudarmory @spf2001 @thenewstack @kirbs1010 @npm_kubecost and countless others for making my first @KubeCon_ unforgettable.

[The New Stack @thenewstack]

KubeCost: Monitor Kubernetes Costs with kubectl https://t.co/EV1M3WMpkp @kubecost #Kubernetes #kubectl