API Meetup: Venture Capitalist Steve Forte on How to Build Winning Developer-First Companies

API Meetup: Venture Capitalist Steve Forte on How to Build Winning Developer-First Companies

May 9, 2022

In a fireside chat, with VC Steve Forte of Fresco Capital, Moesif's CMO, Lawrence Ebringer, discusses how to master developer marketing and build a billion-dollar company.

In somewhat of a wide-ranging discussion, Steve shares his perspectives on:

3:08 How to find a good restaurant (Steve was the CTO of Zagat Guides for a decade)

4:16 How to become a billionaire

6:29 Soup to nuts on scaling a dev-first company from zero to 1.5 million developers, using Telerik (www.progress.com) as an example

29:02 Converting 20,000 free users to paying customers

32:31 Growing through partnerships, with a case study on how a startup can work with AWS and Dropbox

43:40 Insights from the venture side on helping to take pipedrive.com through a $1.5 billion IPO

54:12 What are the best KPIs to use for DevRel

59:10 Why all stakeholders should know about DevRel