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Nick Jordan

Founder and CEO, Narrative · 1 appearance on the record.

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Nick Jordan founded Narrative.io in 2016 to build an enterprise data streaming and commerce platform that simplifies data acquisition, collaboration, and monetization. Before founding Narrative, he served as Senior Vice President of Product and Strategy at Tapad and led product management at Demdex, alongside earlier product roles at Yahoo!.

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Insight
Jordan: Great Tech Products Fail Without Synchronized Sales and Marketing
“Making a company successful requires sort of all the different teams, all of the different functional areas within the company to be successful, to do well, and to work with each other. Having come from a product management background, I thought product manage…”
Nick Jordan Mar 14, 2023 ▶ 4:54 He Stores 10 Petabytes and Still Halved His Cloud Bill
Insight
Jordan: Shutting down early benefits stakeholders over dragging out a failure
“You know, I do think you have to find a way to cut and run and, you know, it actually probably benefits You know, the investors and the employees and a bunch of people, you know, to do that early instead of dragging it out too long anyway.”
Nick Jordan Mar 14, 2023 ▶ 9:16 He Stores 10 Petabytes and Still Halved His Cloud Bill
Disclosure
Jordan: Narrative Halved $95K Monthly AWS Bill While Doubling Revenue
“We got 95 grand one month, I think is probably the peak of our AWS bill. The good news is, I think we have, the AWS bill has gone down every month for the last six months. Last month being December of twenty-twenty-two, we were under 50,000 dollars. So, you kn…”
Nick Jordan Mar 14, 2023 ▶ 18:31 He Stores 10 Petabytes and Still Halved His Cloud Bill
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Jordan: Narrative plans to double 2023 revenue with roughly flat AWS costs
“We think we can continue to grow revenue this year, 20, 23, you know, the plan has us growing by almost doubling revenue. And we think AWS costs year over year are going to be roughly flat.”
Nick Jordan Mar 14, 2023 ▶ 19:16 He Stores 10 Petabytes and Still Halved His Cloud Bill
Disclosure
Jordan: Narrative stores between 5 and 10 petabytes of data on its platform
“I mean, we're storing, you know, somewhere between five and 10 petabytes of data on the platform. Much of that data is processed, not just, you know, once, but many times on behalf of our customers.”
Nick Jordan Mar 14, 2023 ▶ 19:43 He Stores 10 Petabytes and Still Halved His Cloud Bill
Disclosure
Jordan: Narrative.io has received multiple inbound acquisition inquiries
“There have been a couple of times that there has been inbound interest from companies around acquisition. I had investors, I had board members ask, you know, if the company were to be acquired, you know, would you want to stay on board? Actually, we had to, yo…”
Nick Jordan Mar 14, 2023 ▶ 27:39 He Stores 10 Petabytes and Still Halved His Cloud Bill
Opinion
Jordan: Sarcasm Plays Worse in the Bay Area Than on East Coast
“The farther west you move in, in the U S at least the less appreciated sarcasm is. I lived in the Bay area for a number of years and I think there were a bunch of things about me, you know, sort of being a high-strung New Yorker, being very dry-witted and very…”
Nick Jordan Mar 14, 2023 ▶ 34:53 He Stores 10 Petabytes and Still Halved His Cloud Bill
Disclosure
Jordan: Boycotting Twitter Due to State of the Platform
“I used to be on Twitter. I'm currently boy, boycotting it because of the state of Twitter”
Nick Jordan Mar 14, 2023 ▶ 37:03 He Stores 10 Petabytes and Still Halved His Cloud Bill
Disclosure
Narrative.io Executed Multiple Layoffs During COVID and Economic Turmoil
“Along the way, we, we've done you know, a couple of layoffs, you know, around COVID and around some, You know, economic turmoil”
Nick Jordan Mar 14, 2023 ▶ 3:43 He Stores 10 Petabytes and Still Halved His Cloud Bill
Disclosure
Jordan: Narrative spends under $1,000 monthly on Google Ads
“My guess is our monthly spend is probably less than a thousand dollars on, on Google. So it's not nothing, but in the grand scheme of things, it's basically nothing.”
Nick Jordan Mar 14, 2023 ▶ 21:28 He Stores 10 Petabytes and Still Halved His Cloud Bill

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
He Stores 10 Petabytes and Still Halved His Cloud Bill Mar 14, 2023 26m
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