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I have written quite a lot on my personal blog about our decisions and been very transparent. In particular, the decision on switching to BUSL orgininally I talk about here:

https://cra.mr/the-busl-factor

Its worth remembering that licenses are just part of the packaging of a product - part of the distribution model. Sentry is successful because we quickly found product market fit, continued to iterate, and made an affordable and well crafted product. Our distribution model - and in general our approach to affordability - is key to that, but the freedoms of open source software are less so.

For clarity, VC has never had anything to do with it, but we are certainly ambitious. Our singular goal from a product point of view is adoption, and we ensure that via accessibility and affordability. From a competitor point of view I personally think we've done better than most could dream of wrt marketshare. Companies like SigNoz don't compete with us today, and projects like GlitchTip don't even register on the market. Our competition these days is the fuzzy areas of the APM venn diagram like Datadog, New Relic, etc.