Category Visionaries Benjamin Wilms, CEO and Co-Founder of Steadybit: $7.8 Million Raised to Build the Future of Chaos Engineering
In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Benjamin Wilms, CEO and Co-Founder of Steadybit, a chaos engineering platform that's raised $7.8 Million in funding, about why resilience is everything in the modern software economy, and why so many companies struggle to build it into their more complex systems. Working with a small team of dedicated engineers, Steadybit wants to move beyond chaos engineering to create holistic resilience engineering solutions and empower everybody who builds and runs software.
We also speak about Benjamin’s background as a software developer and what it was like transitioning to the role of CEO, the original inspiration for a resilience-focused tech platform like Steadybit, having a real passion for problem solving and sharing knowledge, and why chaos engineering is key to making sure everything runs the way it should in the real world.
Topics Discussed:
- Benjamin’s background in software development, and his history of developing resilience-first software solutions
- The transition from developer to CEO, and confronting the challenges of time management and decision making
- The central role of chaos engineering in building long-term resilience for systems operating in an unpredictable digital space
- Why the term ‘chaos engineering’ itself has great marketing potential, and how attracting initial interest is a big part of business growth
- How learning from failure is such an important part of aspect of developing a business, but why that doesn’t mean it’s always easy