Thomas: Rebuilding Acquired Capabilities Natively Is Faster Than Merging Codebases
Ragy Thomas · 862 With $150m+ Revenue, Plus New Product, Can Anyone Catch Sprinklr? · Dec 3, 2017 · at 11:06
Sprinklr founder and CEO Ragy Thomas explains why Sprinklr rewrites acquired products from scratch rather than merging acquired software systems.
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“So we can rebuild faster than attaching or merging it.”
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