CEO and Co-Founder Cribl, Clint Sharp: Finding Traction
New employees are joining the remote data platform Cribl every week, and as the staff grows, CEO Clint Sharp has noticed a problem: He can’t file a bug report without a lot of caveats. When there were a handful of users, no one would bat an eye at the CEO posting a bug on Slack, but now he has had to learn how to phrase things because people assume he’s “irate and we should change everything we’re doing,” Clint says. “I’ll post something and there’s a flurry of DMs that are happening in the background, like ‘Oh my God.’” Unless the tone of his bug report is clear, workers with more experience at Cribl then have to reassure the newbies: “Calm down. When he does this, he’s not upset. He’s one of the power users of the product.”
In this episode, Clint and Joubin discuss being on the road, niche audiences, top-of-funnel problems, “come to Jesus” meetings, moving the goalposts, building for building’s sake, “down and to the right,” mediating re-orgs, flat organizations, filing bugs as the CEO, setting the example, Henry Schuck, Baldur’s Gate III, legal narratives, Hacker News, Cisco, Doug Merritt, Gary Steele, Rippling, and dead trends.
In this episode, we cover:
01:08 Running a remote company
02:57 Cribl’s management meetings
05:56 Looking back and recognition
08:08 Growing quickly and what Cribl does
11:21 Traction
14:53 Solving a new problem
17:56 Friends and family funding
21:45 Why not shut it all down?
24:36 Healthy arrogance and control
31:02 Serial entrepreneurs and founder-CEOs
33:38 What Clint loves about the job
35:31 The hardest parts
38:41 Core values
41:43 Favorite interview questions
44:26 Drawing boundaries
47:18 Vacation and work-life balance
52:53 Splunk’s lawsuit against Clint
56:26 “Their brand is synonymous with expensive”
58:41 Who owns the data?
01:01:59 Building platforms
01:07:35 “I’m so sick of AI”
01:11:25 Who Cribl is hiring
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