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by sskates 3mo ago
I believe Eric Vishria is the best Series A board member of this generation. I've learned more from him about it what it means to be a great CEO over the last 10 years than anyone else. I haven't heard of another founder who has s
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by sskates 4mo ago
Drew was the original inspiration for me to get into startups. He was a few years ahead of me at MIT and did MIT's Battlecode competition as well. He introduced me to Hacker News, Paul Graham's writing, YC, and the Silicon Valley
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by sskates 4mo ago
I love the launch! Automated observability that feeds back into the product development process is the future of this category vs having to spend a lot of time configuring and managing the infrastructure yourself. It's something we&#x2
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by sskates 7mo ago
Chase- thank you for what you've done in creating Watsi to impact 33,000 lives! It also made me believe in the potential for non profits to create a positive impact again.
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by sskates 11mo ago
Generative Engine Optimization. Probably needs a better name. We go back and forth between that and AI Visibility.
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The State of AI in SaaS
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by sskates 11mo ago
Norman Borlaug's story is amazing. He brought modern farming practices to Mexico and created a new strain of high yield disease resistant dwarf wheat at quadrupled wheat production in the country. Did the same in India, Pakistan, and A
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by sskates 1y ago
Being a farmer was worse!
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by sskates 2y ago
Congrats to you both!! Paras- you guys were always one of the ones we looked up to when starting Amplitude way back in 2012.
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by sskates 2y ago
That's too bad that the TC article read that way. They returned more money to investors than what was put in, which puts them in the top ~20% for acquisitions of this scale. The crazy part is even a lot of the 1B+ privates aren't
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by sskates 2y ago
The current plan is to port all existing functionality to Amplitude's platform as quickly as possible. We'll then migrate everyone over in a way that doesn't break existing functionality and continue running it indefinitely.
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by sskates 2y ago
I share your skepticism of B2B companies making claims of being AI driven! Most stuff I see is a thin wrapper around an existing workflow where the AI isn't adding any meaningful functionality (also see: crypto). We've been very d
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by sskates 2y ago
Amplitude CEO here. To clear a few things up: The number that was reported in term sheet / pro rata did not include any stock, which was a big part of this deal. The total consideration for CommandAI was north of $45M. We're worki
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by sskates 2y ago
Wow- a lot of similarity to what's important with analytics today! Depth of analytics and speed of queries were their key competitive differentiators. Those are still ones we hammer at Amplitude. Also individual visitor history drill-d
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by sskates 2y ago
Public company CEO here. One of my rules that has served me well is "don't ever be on the other side of a transaction from private equity". They have blatantly anticompetitive playbooks where they buy up all the competition i
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by sskates 3y ago
Wow, really cool! Could you apply this to the behavior dataset that we have at Amplitude? I'd love to talk more.
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by sskates 3y ago
I am thinking about this problem at Amplitude. The holy grail of the martech space has always been to predict someone's next action based on what they've done before. What's exciting is that we have one of the largest dataset
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by sskates 3y ago
We’re working on it! Free up to 10M events, more to come later this year. What would reasonably costed look like to you? More on my view on real-time analytics here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15380607
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by sskates 3y ago
Ferruccio and Enzo- congratulations on the launch of June! I've been very impressed by what you've built with June. I love that you've gone deep with the B2B use case- I think there's a lot of depth to that well. The lev
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by sskates 3y ago
I'd love for you to add Amplitude (amplitude.com) to your guide. Ensuring we have the same easy out of the box experience GA does is a top priority for us this year. Let me know how I can us get added!
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by sskates 5y ago
Glad to hear you’ve been happy with Amplitude. We’ve been doing a lot RE helping customers federate data to data lakes/warehouses. If I can ask- what data lake you using and what data from Amplitude are you looking to get into it? (Raw
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by sskates 5y ago
They have our Twitter handle! We gotta fight them to the death for the namespace- there can only be one. In all seriousness I love them although haven't had time to play any since Endless Space. I'm excited for Humankind though!
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by sskates 5y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, it's not ideal today, particularly for companies in your situation. The problem is we're applying the same GTM motion across everything. It works very well for the enterprise but to your point a heav
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by sskates 5y ago
Yes- this is the wave we're riding at Amplitude! The revenue center in companies is changing from sales and marketing to the product organization. That's where all your customers are going and the pandemic is just accelerating thi
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by sskates 5y ago
I'm glad we can push forward the state of the art for customers together!
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by sskates 5y ago
It's very difficult to impossible to measure the impact of PR on the company. I can say that broadly we've not been well known since we started Amplitude and it's driven me crazy as CEO. There are a lot of conversations about
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by sskates 5y ago
Alright, I'm back 24 hours later to finish out my responses! RE going public- yes, there was a lot of alignment between everyone internally about the advantages of being a public company. The main downsides are 1) cost 2) distraction t
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by sskates 5y ago
Our first one was intro from a prospective investor. Second sent me an email after we launched on TechCrunch. The third one sent us the following email: "Hello — we are a Mixpanel customer and evaluating alternatives right now and came
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by sskates 5y ago
It's possible to do and we've tried a few variations but it's so unwieldy that for 98% of cases we strongly recommend against it. Instrumentation isn't actually the hard part- it's managing your taxonomy. You'r
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by sskates 5y ago
We're going big after the Chief Product Officer in the enterprise. We're in 26 of the Fortune 100 today and are going to figure out how to get to a majority. The levers you have available as a public company are different and I&#x

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