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How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:40 Harj Taggar Today, we're really excited to be joined by Spencer Skates, CEO and co-founder of Amplitude. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:56 Spencer Skates I mean, I'll, I'll just tell you the, the amplitude story.
- ▶ 3:46 Spencer Skates There's, there's skepticism on the part of my co-founders, um, and, and some of the broader team with an amplitude about what was actually going to be possible with it.
- ▶ 4:45 Spencer Skates Uh, in both their cases, they were kind of the change agents that Amplitude needed. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:38 Harj Taggar Like, what was the vibe internally at Amplitude on the team? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:07 Spencer Skates Um, we've always had this vision at amplitude of a self-improving product where you have a product that dynamically responds to your user feedback. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:43 Spencer Skates That's the delivery loop that Amplitude has mastered over the last decade, and you know, that's, that's our core competitive advantage, you know, as, as an analytics company, is we're better at that than
- ▶ 12:57 Spencer Skates Frustration, you know, in, in amplitude as a case study, a lot of frustration from engineers being like, man, I see just tremendous what they feel is grifting in AI where it's a lot of talkers, not many doers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:10 Spencer Skates You had, uh, one of our engineers, this, this guy named Leo Jang, who built AI visibility and he just wanted to, he was actually going to leave amplitude to start a company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:10 Spencer Skates And so I, I think, um, you know, what I'll say with the amplitude team is like, there's some incredible engineers there.
- ▶ 20:31 Spencer Skates Speaking of things that you had to give up in order to do this, what happened to the existing amplitude road roadmap? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:15 Harj Taggar I don't think everyone realizes how Amplitude started out. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:16 Garry Tan Like one of the things I remember was, um, once you went to amplitude, then it was, you know, B to B sales
- ▶ 34:55 Garry Tan Hearing you speak about your experience at Amplitude is, uh, it's just really inspiring to me because, like, you go all the way into the details. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:00 Spencer Skates Another thing, which still trips me up to this day, and I hate, and I try to run Amplitude differently, but there's truth to it, is like hierarchy.
- ▶ 42:30 Spencer Skates Do you feel like we could turn what you did with Amplitude into the playbook for how SaaS companies should reinvent themselves in the AI era? 2 times in the scene
How To Start A Dev Tools Company | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:31 Nicolas Dessaigne Think about PostHog and Amplitude, or Supabase and Firebase, or Airbyte and Fivetran.
How Do Billion Dollar Startups Start? · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:08 Harj Taggar Here's like another interesting case is Amplitude, which is now like a public company, um, offering an analytics product. 2 times in the scene
Tips For Technical Startup Founders | Startup School · Y Combinator
How to Get Your First Customers | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:48 Gustaf Alströmer As you can see, some of the early ones like Amplitude, Stripe, Front, they were doing up on sales emails, just like the one we described to get started.
Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:25 Calvin French-Owen And so we switched again to something which also we don't do today, ah, but effectively it was a competitor to Mixpanel or Amplitude.
Michael Seibel - Building Product · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:59 Michael Seibel Mixpanel, Amplitude, Heap.