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Scott Johnston, CEO of Docker, on growing from $11M to $135M ARR in 2 years | Sacra

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Docker is an application development platform based on open source technologies that allows developers to create, deploy and manage containerized applications. Scott Johnston is the CEO of Docker. We talked to Scott to learn more about Docker's struggle to monetize on the foundational standard it launched in 2013, how the company pivoted following its 2019 recap, and what kind of company Docker is building for the future. Docker has had a long and rich history since its initial release in 2013. Today, devops, infrastructure, and software engineering look very different from what they did a decade ago, and Docker has a lot to do with that. You’ve been here since 2014. Can you recap the history of the company for us? If you go back to when I joined Docker in 2013-14, it was just as the DevOps wave was rising. Before, I was at Puppet—one of the four big DevOps players alongside Chef, Ansible, and Salt—and at the time, we were really focused on this question of how you help developers crea

View PDF Embed PDF Highlight Unhighlight Background Scott Johnston is the CEO of Docker . We talked to Scott to learn more about Docker 's struggle to monetize on the foundational standard it launched in 2013, how the company pivoted following its 2019 recap, and what kind of company Docker is building for the future. Questions Docker has had a long and rich history since its initial release in 2013. Today, devops, infrastructure, and software engineering look very different from what they did a decade ago, and Docker has a lot to do with that. You’ve been here since 2014. Can you recap the hi

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