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Spenser Skates: How Amplitude Rewired Itself Around AI

Through a bottoms-up experiment phase that triggered hard reorgs; Amplitude rebuilt its analytics roadmap around AI-native teams and dropped SaaS assumptions.

Spenser SkatesguestHarj TaggarhostGarry Tanhost
Dec 3, 202544mWatch on YouTube ↗

CHAPTERS

  1. 0:00 – 3:40

    Intro

  2. 3:40 – 11:00

    Embracing AI at Amplitude

  3. 11:00 – 15:32

    Product roadmap, AI native priorities

  4. 15:32 – 18:40

    Org changes & hierarchy

  5. 18:40 – 23:30

    “AI killing SaaS”, changing the Amplitude roadmap

  6. 23:30 – 32:14

    The “features, not companies” debate, advantages for incumbents

  7. 32:14 – 38:09

    Finding good mentors, hyper focus

  8. 38:09 – 41:52

    The difference between being a founder vs a big company executive

  9. 41:52 – 44:21

    Outro

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