Why New Relic Is Raising $80 Million Now

They seem to have missed the most important reason:<p>- Because we can raise it now at a good valuation and the future is uncertain

They sent me, a customer, an email announcing the funding. Congrats to them, but why are you emailing me...

Last week I was standing behind a couple guys wearing New Relic shirts and I overheard a conversation like this:<p><pre><code> Larry) We just got a brand new 9TB storage array for the intranet Moe) Wow 9TB is really huge! Larry) I know right, but the graphics department needs like 3TB and keep asking for more, don't they know that 9TB is huuuge? Moe) Man that's insane, the marketing guys are already over a terabyte! What are we going to do? Larry) I dunno man, we'll probably have to tell them no. </code></pre> I'd guess they need the money to buy a larger filer.

I think they have a RC helicopter manufacturer to pay off.

They send me so many emails. It's a joke, I probably put in a fake number but I hear they also call a lot of people. Offer a free 'data t-shirt', make you install their product and call/email you constantly.

New Relic needs competition not funding. Their prices are ridiculous and there's nobody to keep them honest because they're the only game in town.

They should use some of that money to decrease their absurdly high subscription price when you run 10s of dynos on heroku

New Relic has the most aggressive sales staff I've seen after CDN providers. With their absurdly high prices, I'm surprised they need any funding.

So I just saw Lew speak and I wanted to share this awesome anecdote about the origin of the name. Lew was in a meeting with a VC and before the meeting he asked him what the name of the new venture was. Thinking on his feet, he plugged his name into an anagram finder online.<p>Lew Cirne=New Relic.

5. They need to keep pushing tweets into my timeline that I always ignore.

5. We want to give fellow nerds awesome t-shirts for free.

To put up $100,000 billboard signs next to the 101?