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Re: From Show HN to Series D

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Post by tootie » Wed, Apr 03, 2019, 1:13 PM UTC

pkrein wrote: post #46

tootie wrote: post #39

It's surprising given that there's already a plethora of tag managers out there including the big boys like Google and Adobe and specialty players like Tealium who solve this exact problem. Either Segment has secret sauce or it's just a huge market.

Peter, co-founder/CEO here... tag managers from all these players only solve the issue on websites, but only 30% of the data we manage comes from websites. The rest comes from mobile apps, payment systems, helpdesks, CRMs, email, push notifications, etc. So tag management is an antiquated/web-specific category that we've been ripping-and-replacing now for a few years. It is also a huge market, with lots of interestin…

I'm curious where you see the market moving. I've done a lot of data layer implementations and it's definitely simpler from a site development POV, but it always ends up being a management debacle handing off data layer to the tag management implementation which is a niche specialty. Do you have any white paper or whatever on why segment is a better approach?

Re: From Show HN to Series D

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Post by vblumen » Wed, Apr 03, 2019, 4:22 PM UTC

tootie wrote: post #51

pkrein wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Peter, co-founder/CEO here... tag managers from all these players only solve the issue on websites, but only 30% of the data we manage comes from websites. The rest comes from mobile apps, payment systems, helpdesks, CRMs, email, push notifications, etc. So tag management is an antiquated/web-specific category that we've been ripping-and-replacing now for a few years. It is also a huge market, with lots of interestin…

I'm curious where you see the market moving. I've done a lot of data layer implementations and it's definitely simpler from a site development POV, but it always ends up being a management debacle handing off data layer to the tag management implementation which is a niche specialty. Do you have any white paper or whatever on why segment is a better approach?

Hi there, I head up the channel program at Segment and I'd love an opportunity to answer these questions and give you a demo of our products––I suspect we could work well together. Can I ask you to (1) sign up to become a channel partner: https://segment.com/partners/channel/ and (2) send me an email to get started? vlad@segment.com

Re: From Show HN to Series D

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Post by staticassertion » Wed, Apr 03, 2019, 6:15 PM UTC

calvinfo wrote: post #40

staticassertion wrote: post #23

Something I'm interested in - how did the move to Boston go? Why move back to SF? I often wonder about the viability of starting a tech company elsewhere. Does being a VC company impact this?

We originally moved to Boston to be close to universities. It seemed like a better location for convincing our professors to use the edtech product we'd started with. We made the move back to SF to be closer to our customers (since we had shifted to building an analytics product by then). It was much easier to walk them through the product in-person. I wouldn't say this is strictly necessary today, but SF does have a…

Yeah, Boston has always felt like a great place for a startup/ young company with all of those universities on the east coast or like, blocks away in Cambridge.

Makes sense though that you wanted to be near your customer base.

Re: From Show HN to Series D

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Post by ironmagma » Wed, Apr 03, 2019, 9:27 PM UTC

idlewords wrote: post #30

This is a nice "silicon valley in a nutshell" post. Meandering startup skates by on generous funding rounds before finding itself a niche in the surveillance economy, where it is (of course) still not profitable, but congratulating itself for the ability to able to raise further investor money, conditioned on the prospect of expanding monitoring software to ever wider markets (while as a sideline ruining San Francisc…

How is employing people to work in San Francisco “ruining San Francisco for working people”?

Re: From Show HN to Series D

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Post by jazzyjackson » Thu, Apr 04, 2019, 2:21 AM UTC

ironmagma wrote: post #54

idlewords wrote: post #30

This is a nice "silicon valley in a nutshell" post. Meandering startup skates by on generous funding rounds before finding itself a niche in the surveillance economy, where it is (of course) still not profitable, but congratulating itself for the ability to able to raise further investor money, conditioned on the prospect of expanding monitoring software to ever wider markets (while as a sideline ruining San Francisc…

How is employing people to work in San Francisco “ruining San Francisco for working people”?

I'm assuming he means 'all the working people besides startup types who now have to compete in rent and cost of living'