Mat Appelman
308 posts
@matappelman
Working on something new. Co-Founded @Opstrace, Inc (Acq. by GitLab). Ex @mesosphere, @vmware
While the cost of Halloween candy has surged more than 13.1% since last September, the Mars candy bar family became 44% richer during the pandemic increasing their wealth by $32.6 billion. The Mars family is now worth $106.8 billion. Do you know what’s scary? Corporate greed.
A long time ago, @sebp and I went through @ycombinator together: S2010 batch. We were absolute nobodies, outsiders. We launched (or rather re-launched) Dotcloud, which later became Docker. 12 years later I have invested in his startup @opstrace and he invested in @dagger_io. 🤜🤛
Stablecoins pose risks to consumers & to our economy. They’re propping up one of the shadiest parts of the crypto world, DeFi, where consumers are least protected from getting scammed. Our regulators need to get serious about clamping down before it is too late.
.@opstrace has joined @gitlab! 🎉 With this acquisition, we will bring our open source observability to The DevOps Platform—alongside existing monitoring capabilities—to accelerate adoption and features. And, yes, we're still committed to Apache v2! opstrace.com/blog/gitlab
I'm very happy to announce that we are now @gitlab ! Thank you to our early adopters, @matappelman, @trichris, @gehrcke, Nick and Simão for the road so far!
