Cloudflare's Outage and other 🔥 takes from the PLG world!

Your weekly PLG guide: ClickUp's Touch up, Sage Growth Advice, and the latest funding round-up

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Into the Twitterverse 🐦🌌

• SNAP - And half the internet goes down 😨

  Cloudflare’s Thanos snap this week saw a range of popular services go offline

  Cloudflare @Cloudflare

  Today, June 21, 2022, Cloudflare suffered an outage that affected traffic in 19 of our data centers. This was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations. Here's what happened: cfl.re/3Obqxr6

  A change that was deployed as part of a long-running project affected 19 data centers - 4% of the total network that handles 50% of all requests

  Affecting:

  • Canva

  • Omegle

  • NordVPN

  • DoorDash

  • Medium

  • Discord

  • …you get the idea 🤷🏻‍♀️

  

• Let your product be your sensei 🧑🏻‍🏫

  Tom Laufer with some sage advice for growth teams here.

  TL;DR: Create sustainable growth that leverages your product by:

  • Identifying your “aha” moment and creating a path that gets users there ASAFP

  • Aiming to optimize activation rates for users who fall in your market-fit rather than ALL users

• ClickUp’s getting a TouchUp 💄

  You’ll want to fire up your subwoofers for this sneak preview 🍿

  ClickUp @clickup

  Are you ready for it...? ⚡️ ClickUp 3.0 ⚡️ Better. Faster. Stronger. Coming Fall 2022.

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🔎 The PLG hunt

Javascript for the serverless era 👩🏻‍💻

With Node.js, Ryan Dahl showed the world how useful JavaScript outside the browser can be. Deno is the extension of this idea. Deno is a runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly based on Rust and the V8 JavaScript engine.

The Deno stack is built to improve local development and system APIs. With money in the bank from their Series A, the team plans to build out their Deno Deploy, their commercial offering: a modern user-friendly, serverless-at-edge system.

Deno @deno_land

The Deno Company has raised $21M in an investment round led by @sequoia

deno.comDeno raises $21MSeries A led by Sequoia Capital

Which hot and upcoming PLG company are you most excited about? 👇🏻

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Growth Stories 🚀

Audio on Zoom calls: Clear & Krisp ✅

In 2020 - in just ONE year - Krisp.ai grew its active users by 20x, enterprise accounts by 23x, and ARR by 13x. Here’s a look at the product-led growth engine powering the magic👇

Krisp.ai: The noisefighting superhero

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Fundraising, Venture Capital, and Exits 🤑

• The LogRocket rocketship is now in the Series C orbit 🚀

  The frontend monitoring and product analytics platform is doubling down on R&D and hiring

  TechCrunch @TechCrunch

  LogRocket nabs $25M for 'intelligent' app analytics tcrn.ch/3OyAJtz by @Kyle_L_Wiggers

  

  tcrn.chLogRocket nabs $25M for ‘intelligent’ app analytics – TechCrunchLogRocket, a company developing analytics and monitoring products for web and mobile apps, has raised $25 million in a venture funding round.

• SleekFlow’s now backed by the Tiger 🐯

  SleekFlow is an omnichannel social commerce platform that helps businesses build customer flow automation from messaging and live video to transactions

  TechCrunch @TechCrunch

  Tiger Global backs SaaS omnichannel social commerce platform SleekFlow in $8M funding tcrn.ch/3xPvvTt by @kateparknews

  

  tcrn.chTiger Global Partners backs SleekFlow in $8M funding – TechCrunchSleekFlow, which helps businesses build customer flow automation from messaging and live video to transactions, has closed $8 million Series A funding.

• Product notifications made easy with Courier 💌

  Courier provides an API and studio to send and build notifications across a range of channels

  Courier @trycourier

  Super excited to announce that we have raised a $35M Series B round led by partner @SangeenZeb from @GVteam with continued support from @BessemerVP and @MatrixPartners. Can't wait to build the future. #notifications #api #softwareengineering #webdevelopment

• Automation for the masses 👭

  Workflow automation tool Bardeen announced their Series A this week

  Bardeen @bardeenai

  We're excited to announce our Series A round today, led by @insightpartners with participation from @FirstMarkCap @468Capital and some amazing angels! 🚀🙏

  

  TechCrunch @TechCrunch

  Bardeen raises $15.3M for browser-based workflow automation https://t.co/66yiA4cLAm by @kyle_l_wiggers

Launches, events, and releases

• Two-way messaging comes to Intercom 🤝

  Intercom @intercom

  1️⃣ Imagine a world where customers can actually respond to the texts businesses send them. We did. Introducing Intercom’s two-way SMS. Businesses and customers can now communicate whenever, wherever through two-way SMS messaging. Learn more here: inter.com/3O9C5Lo

• Revue Twitter Write

  Twitter is also testing a new long-form blogging feature called Twitter Notes,

  Twitter Write @TwitterWrite

  Since 2015, this has been the home of @revue. Starting today, @revue is now a part of @TwitterWrite.

Nerding out on PLG 🤓📚

Peter Ramsey on why an obsession with the user experience is a healthy one 👇

Highlighting the importance of UX, but also growth teams & product-led growth in:

• increasing conversion rates

• decreasing churn

• Upselling

Peter Ramsey @PeteRamsey

The ROI of investing in UX during a recession. 📈 That's the talk I gave at a @creandum event last week, and here's my presentation: (Sure, it's not the same as being there—but hopefully you get the gist).✌️ pitch.com/public/a26f809…

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