Chronosphere: Two Engineers Who Outgrew Every Monitoring Tool at Uber and Built Their Own
Chronosphere was founded by Martin Mao and Rob Skillington, who met at Microsoft in 2011 after moving from Australia and later reunited at Uber. There, monitoring data grew roughly tenfold a year, and no open source or commercial tool could keep up, so they built M3, an open source metrics platform. In 2019 they left, with Uber's blessing, to commercialize it, launching Chronosphere with an $11 million Series A led by Greylock. The company later reached a $1.6 billion valuation, and Palo Alto Ne
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