Part 1: Grafana Labs COO, Doug Hanna On Building a $3B Company with Open Source, Scaling Culture and Going From 70 to 500 People

Doug Hanna, COO at Grafana Labs, joins us to discuss scaling a company to $3B in valuation after raising $330M in funding. As a former Zendesk VP of Ops, Doug has had front seats at both companies, during hyper-growth. This episode, Part 1, focuses on people and culture: what goes into scaling from 70 to 400 net new employees in a mere 18 months. Grafana Labs is the company behind the lead open source observability platform, Grafana, used by the likes of Salesforce, Paypal, Verizon, Ebay, and 750K other instances.

Part 2 of Doug's episode will air in a few weeks and focuses on scaling the go-to-market.

Grafana Labs - https://grafana.com

Doug Hanna on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglashanna1

Episode Website: https://betweentwocoos.com/part-1-grafana-labs-coo-doug-hanna

Episode Transcript: https://betweentwocoos.com/part-1-grafana-labs-coo-doug-hanna/#transcript

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