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Christopher Stott

Co-founder, Buddybuild

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Christopher Stott was co-founder of Buddybuild, a Vancouver company that let developers build, test and ship mobile apps automatically on every git push, with crash reporting and in-app feedback. Stott and Dennis Pilarinos founded Buddybuild in 2015 after both worked at Amazon; Apple acquired Buddybuild in January 2018.

Christopher hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Christopher co-founded Buddybuild, which appears in 1 talk in the archive.

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Apple buys app development service BuddybuildTechCrunch
2018

Quick answers

Did Christopher Stott co-found Buddybuild?

Yes. TechCrunch reported on 2018-01-02 that "Buddybuild was founded in 2015 by former Amazon employees Dennis Pilarinos and Christopher Stott."

What was Stott's background before Buddybuild?

TechCrunch reported on 2018-01-02 that Stott and Dennis Pilarinos were former Amazon employees when they founded Buddybuild in 2015; it gives no further detail on Stott's role there.

What happened to Buddybuild?

TechCrunch reported on 2018-01-02 that Apple acquired Buddybuild and planned to keep its roughly 40-person engineering team in British Columbia, folding the service into Apple's Xcode tools.

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