why aren't all 6 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
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Opinion
Mixpanel and Amplitude create most data issues for tech companies
“Mixpanel, amplitude, didn't really change for like probably 1520 years which usually creates most of the issues in a company.”
Insight
Balfour: Non-viral B2B startups need day-one growth hires before PMF
“Whereas the amplitude competitor is one where it's like, Hey, I need somebody dedicated on this from day one to drive some volume to understand whether or not what the hell we're building is even close to on the mark.”
Opinion
Hila Qu calls Google Analytics a last-generation tool compared to Amplitude
“A lot of funders in early stage, they use Google analytics is okay, but it's, I would say it's last generation of analytic tool. You want to have tools like Amplitude or Mixpanel or things like that.”
What-if
Siroker: Optimizely could have built product analytics and beaten Amplitude
“That is the one where in that moment I should have just said, okay, we're going to crush them and do product analytics. I think too much of my ego is associated with that. I should have been more Zuck like and just said, okay, they didn't accept our offer. Let…”
Disclosure
Siroker: Optimizely tried to acquire Amplitude when it had four employees
“I tried to buy Amplitude when there are four people. In fact, they were about to raise their, I remember we're sitting at, I think at Chipotle and Soma with Spencer. And I, to this day, I'm so impressed with, I just, I was offering him insane amounts of money,…”
Disclosure
Grady: Sequoia still holds positions in Snowflake, Amplitude, and Datadog
“We still own a bunch of Snowflake. We own a bunch of Amplitude. We actually own a bunch of Datadog.”