Conor Bronsdon

@conorbronsdon.com

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Talking/writing about startups, AI, politics, & software development 🎙 ex-Host of Dev Interrupted, current host of Chain of Thought ⛓️, failed founder, & avid sports fan.

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Cybersecurity company acquisition diagram showing Check Point ($15B valuation) at top with connected companies below including Fireblocks, SentinelOne, Cato Networks, Imperva, Orca, and others. Below that, Palo Alto Networks ($56B) with its acquired companies including Netskope, Desc.ope, Normalyze, Authomize, Infodefense, CyberAnalytics, ENDOR, Neosec, and Eureka. Each company shows acquisition values in billions. Source credited to Dror Davidoff/DrorAnalyst
Bar chart titled 'DevOps Global Market Report 2025' showing market growth from 2024 to 2029. Teal-colored bars increase from $12.54B in 2024 to $37.33B in 2029, with a diagonal line indicating CAGR of 25.70%. Y-axis labeled 'Market Size (in USD billion).' Source attributed to The Business Research Company.
News headline on bright green background: 'CodeRabbit raises $60M, valuing the 2-year-old AI code review startup at $550M.' Byline shows Marina Temkin, dated 12:00 PM PDT, September 16, 2025.
DevOps toolchain landscape diagram organized into four horizontal sections: 'Plan & Code,' 'Build, Test, Integrate,' 'Release & Deploy,' and 'Operate & Monitor.' Each section contains numerous vendor logos arranged by category including issue tracking, CI/CD, testing, monitoring tools, and more. Bottom row shows 'Developer Productivity' and 'Supply Chain Security' categories with additional vendor logos
Infographic titled 'Microsoft Acquisitions' on light blue background. Microsoft logo in circle at center with text explaining their acquisition strategy since 1987's Forethought/PowerPoint purchase, noting they average six acquisitions yearly with fourteen exceeding $1 billion. Seven company logos arranged below in circles: Skype, Xbox Game Studios, Bing, LinkedIn, GitHub, Activision, and OpenAI. Source credited to FourWeekMBA at bottom.
Four square logo tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid: top left shows a blue sunburst/starburst pattern, top right displays an intertwined coral and blue abstract shape, bottom left features the black 'DX' text logo on white background, bottom right shows a white circular arc on blue background.
Bar chart showing the growth trajectory of AI software spending from 2022 to 2027. Dark blue bars represent market size in USD billions, starting at approximately $125B in 2022 and growing to about $300B in 2027. An orange line overlay shows year-over-year growth rates, starting at 17.8% in 2023 and increasing to 20.4% in 2027, with the right y-axis scaled from 0% to 21%. Source credited to Gartner Digital Markets.
Article header from The Pragmatic Engineer titled 'Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey' with subtitle explaining it's about the consultancy's methodology for measuring software developer productivity and offering a more sensible approach. Authored by Gergely Orosz and Kent Beck, dated August 29, 2023. Engagement metrics show 665 likes, 23 comments, 52 shares.
LinkedIn post by Laura Tacho, CTO at DX, sharing an article from The Pragmatic Engineer about how 18 top companies measure AI's impact in engineering. Grid displays logos and bullet-pointed metrics for companies including GitHub, Google, Dropbox, Glassdoor, Webflow, Toast, Microsoft, Monzo, Atlassian, eBay, CircleCI, CarGurus, Adyen, Booking.com, Grammarly, Vanguard, T-Mobile, and Ramp. Post shows 40 comments and 83 reposts with engagement metrics visible
Table titled 'The Core 4 framework' showing developer productivity metrics organized in a 2x4 grid. Four orange column headers (Speed, Effectiveness, Quality, Impact) with two rows below: 'Key metric' row lists PR throughput, Developer Experience Index (DXI), Change failure rate, and % of time spent on new capabilities. 'Secondary metrics' row in lighter peach shows additional measurements under each category. Footnotes indicate measurement levels and attribution to Lenny's Newsletter.
Marketing banner for DX (Developer Intelligence Platform) featuring a stylized eye logo made of horizontal lines with one blue line highlighted. Headline reads 'Developer intelligence for the AI era' with subtext explaining DX helps measure developer productivity and navigate AI-augmented engineering. Below shows logos of companies using the platform including Toast, Block, Algolia, Pinterest, ADP, BNY, Fiserv, Indeed, and GitHub, labeled as 'Powering the world's top companies.' Black 'Get a demo' button centered below main text.
Infographic showing Atlassian's acquisition strategy with bubbles of varying sizes arranged in a circle around the Atlassian logo. The largest acquisition is DX for $1B in 2025, shown in red. Other major acquisitions include Loom for $975M in 2023, Statuspage for $425M in 2016, and Opsgenie for $295M in 2018, all highlighted in blue. Smaller acquisitions are shown in white bubbles arranged chronologically from 2008 to 2022, including companies like Trello (2017), HipChat (2012), and Bitbucket (2010). Blue labels indicate acquisition prices ranging from $2.6M to $1B, with years listed beside each company.
Bar chart showing the growth trajectory of AI software spending from 2022 to 2027. Dark blue bars represent market size in USD billions, starting at approximately $125B in 2022 and growing to about $300B in 2027. An orange line overlay shows year-over-year growth rates, starting at 17.8% in 2023 and increasing to 20.4% in 2027, with the right y-axis scaled from 0% to 21%. Source credited to Gartner Digital Markets.
Diagram showing the DX logo at the center with various software integration icons arranged in a semi-circular pattern around it. Icons include GitHub, Medium, Jira, Confluence, and other development and collaboration tools, connected by subtle curved lines suggesting integration or connectivity between platforms. It then transforms to zoom into the DX platform, showcasing some insights within a dashboard.