I have been a participant to these discussions often enough so I'm quite aware of public perception on those topics :) I think we should be judged by our performance though and we are doing our very best to make sure that people like the product.
It would be crazy business to throw our biggest competitive advantage over board. It's not that we do not know why people use us :)
Honestly, I think you have the best UX and the best support team and the most compelling price. I just hope this remains the case in the future and I wish you all the best of luck.
I will be incredibly happy to be proven wrong on my fears.
I trust Armin given his excellent open source track record in the Python community. I will be using Sentry when I need to, solely because he works there :)
You're overstating how much power investors have at this stage of a company. During a seed, Series A, Series B etc. the entrepreneurs are often still in complete control and investors are mere advisors.
It is the companies that raise crazy amounts of capital over many rounds who end up at the whim of boards and investors.
Equity isn't where all the control comes from. Because they raised 9mil it's almost a sure thing they'll have to raise another round or go bust, so there's huge incentive to do what investors want.
