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Is there something of a name conflict with Amplitude, the French studio who makes games like Endless Legend, Dungeons of the Endless and others?
In all seriousness I love them although haven't had time to play any since Endless Space. I'm excited for Humankind though!
Hey! i still remember when i was your TA a long time ago, mad props on IPOing :)
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Perfect!
Daniel, any chance we can have these AMA with more YC later-stage founders? This is such an amazing experience (we all want to talk and listen to this amazing founders) maybe a new category? AMA HN
In the meantime, Kyle from Cruise has some posts in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28710098
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While joining a FAANG in the past was most likely the richest path, that may not be true today.
An engineer 6-7years into their career can pull more than 1M$/yr in FAANG.
FAANG pays well, but if you check what I’m saying against Levels.fyi, that’s a pretty exceptional situation for someone with that little experience.
Now that you have gone to the public markets for more capital (congrats on what look to be a good liquidity event), where do you see the company going from here, how do you get there without private equity incentives for employees (ie continuing to get good talent) and what are the greatest challenges going forward? Best of luck on the next stage of the journey in the public markets!
We're going big after the Chief Product Officer in the enterprise. We're in 26 of the Fortune 100 today and are going to figure out how to get to a majority. The levers you have available as a public company are different and I'm still learning them. Employee stock purchase plans are one thing we've already implemented that helps align incentives with company success. You can also be more aggressive about rewarding t…
Thats a good point. I would agree that having more cash available works very well for enterprise level AEs. My thought was how do you retain or engage the core product engineering team especially those with deep company knowledge who sometimes are hitting a wall of engagement/personal growth by the time companies are going public.
I've just seen focus veer off path as companies go public and stocks unlock on the product/engineering side. That said though, there is a natural inertia with companies growing quickly like yours that can counter some of those challenges.
I'd agree - the right leaders make a big difference, aligned incentives, and a good organization. Sounds like you are thinking about all the right things. Look forward to watching you guys grow.
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An engineer 6-7years into their career can pull more than 1M$/yr in FAANG.
Can, I guess. That’s generally L8 income; it’d be pretty unusually to make it to that level in seven years. FAANG pays well, but if you check what I’m saying against Levels.fyi, that’s a pretty exceptional situation for someone with that little experience.
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Getting first 1-10 paying clients is really tough. And with the $12k-$120k/year range, it might have been really tough. Would you be able to share how did you get those first few paid clients? Thanks.
Our first one was intro from a prospective investor. Second sent me an email after we launched on TechCrunch. The third one sent us the following email: "Hello — we are a Mixpanel customer and evaluating alternatives right now and came across the TC article. We also use RJ metrics, so what you guys are offering is really compelling. I do have a question about what "custom integration" means on the feature breakdown b…
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To be fair Adobe IPO'd in 1986, long before SaaS was a thing. I wouldn't say they quite fit the bill of "built by selling large enterprise software contracts".
I would. Back in 1986, enterprises paid for Adobe software (paid a lot ) and everyone else pirated it. Piracy was the free tier -- you'd pirate it as a student or small business, then pay as you either got a job at a big company or turned into a big company.
Ah, the Netflix model :)
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Daniel, any chance we can have these AMA with more YC later-stage founders? This is such an amazing experience (we all want to talk and listen to this amazing founders) maybe a new category? AMA HN
That's a good idea. Anybody have any nominations? In the meantime, Kyle from Cruise has some posts in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28710098
Mathilde, Front
Reshma, Gingko Bioworks
Emmet Shear, Twitch
PC/JC, Stripe
BA, Coinbase
B Chesky, Airbnb
Sid, GitLab
S Hykes, ex-Docker
P Conrad, Rippling
H Mathur, Razorpay
V Aatrey, Meesho
Ryan, Flexport
Drew, Dropbox
Tom, ex-Monzo
Immad, Mercury
Thanks!