Spenser Skates
@spenserskates
Followers
5,630
Following
471
Media
100
Statuses
1,010
CEO, cofounder @Amplitude_HQ
San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2013
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
Israel
• 3172853 Tweets
Iran
• 2693374 Tweets
ايران
• 1101331 Tweets
Gaza
• 997571 Tweets
اسرائيل
• 949437 Tweets
Tel Aviv
• 673756 Tweets
Walz
• 519443 Tweets
Netanyahu
• 516703 Tweets
Presidenta
• 412256 Tweets
Vance
• 399075 Tweets
Middle East
• 370012 Tweets
Halloween
• 313304 Tweets
Claudia Sheinbaum
• 241706 Tweets
Iron Dome
• 158597 Tweets
Champions League
• 146681 Tweets
イスラエル
• 126704 Tweets
Wizkid
• 93332 Tweets
Adams
• 89795 Tweets
John Amos
• 89030 Tweets
#الهلال_الشرطه_العراقي
• 83372 Tweets
World War 3
• 80162 Tweets
Davido
• 78746 Tweets
Good Times
• 67798 Tweets
Young Boys
• 61157 Tweets
Tigers
• 59661 Tweets
Dortmund
• 52341 Tweets
Isreal
• 49038 Tweets
Raiders
• 43008 Tweets
60 Minutes
• 40988 Tweets
#GHLímite4
• 39250 Tweets
Royals
• 35708 Tweets
対象作品
• 34266 Tweets
Astros
• 33117 Tweets
集英社秋マンガチャ開催
• 32610 Tweets
からくりサーカス
• 30520 Tweets
ケンタッキー
• 28252 Tweets
Orioles
• 25630 Tweets
#TemptationIsland
• 22742 Tweets
Frogido
• 22329 Tweets
Brewers
• 21152 Tweets
25
32
542
We reported our first earnings as a public company today. As always, I want to make sure retail investors have access to the same information as the big institutions, so I’m putting the most interesting questions from our earnings call here.
@Amplitude_HQ
15
30
465
Today is
@Amplitude_HQ
’s first official day as a public company, $AMPL!! I wanted to share some of my reflections on this milestone (and we're finally out of our quiet period!):
16
19
444
Ask Me Anything!
Yesterday
@Amplitude_HQ
listed on
@Nasdaq
under the ticker $AMPL. I believe that all investors should have access to the same information that big funds do. I want to open the door to everyday investors (and anyone else with questions about Amplitude!)
35
21
291
So excited for what’s ahead at Amplitude!
7
11
217
It has been incredible to watch
@sama
's leadership of
@OpenAI
. Others have articulated how special he is more eloquently than I ever could.
I have tremendous respect for the innovation of the governance structure to create an organization for the benefit of all humanity. It's
i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people.
will have more to say about what’s next later.
🫡
7K
9K
95K
9
13
203
It's not every day that I get to talk about something that I think will change the future of analytics. Today is one of those days.
Introducing: Snowflake Native Amplitude
One of the top requests we get from data leaders is to be able to leverage all the investment they've made
11
29
173
We just raised a $150M round led by
@gradypb
@sequoia
with GIC, Battery, and IVP participating (they left out
@paladin314159
from the picture! We're getting it fixed)
5
8
143
Great to meet you,
@Nasdaq
from
@Amplitude_HQ
! Thanks for broadcasting our Series F in Times Square
3
26
119
I'll be hosting an Ask Me Anything tomorrow at 9am PT on Twitter!
I believe that all investors should have access to the same information that big funds do. I want to open the door to everyday investors (and anyone else with questions about Amplitude!)
5
10
118
The public listing process has been shrouded in secrecy. We're lifting the veil for the first time at
@Amplitude_HQ
. I'm excited to share the very first business school case study of a public listing:
3
15
108
@Amplitude_HQ
reported its Q4 earnings today, and as always I want to be transparent about the questions and feedback we're getting so all investors have access to the same information. Here are the best questions we were asked during our earnings call.
3
12
108
Analytics pricing sucks. Amplitude is finally changing that!
For the last 5 years, pricing is the top cited issue for adopting Product Analytics generally and Amplitude specifically:
6
11
95
Excited to partner with
@sequoia
to build the next phase of
@Amplitude_HQ
. Welcome
@gradypb
to the board!
6
5
95
@paulg
Thank you for putting us on this path with YC! Amplitude seed round investors have 200x'd their original investment so it ended up being a great outcome all around.
@AdamDraper
in particular was our first angel and an amazing supporter.
2
0
92
We passed a very special milestone at Amplitude earlier in 2020: $100M in ARR.
We celebrated in December with some special guests:
3
5
93
I just added a board member through Twitter. Welcome
@catherinewong
to Amplitude's board of directors! Thank you to
@ericvishria
and
@bgurley
for the introduction.
Here's the original Tweet:
Most importantly, Josh wanted me to let everyone know that
@catherinewong
would make an excellent board member! 20 years of experience in product/engineering at Omniture, Adobe, & Domo. "Epitome of 'Keep Calm and Carry On.'"
6
9
151
4
5
85
Our new
@Amplitude_HQ
office in SF officially opens on Monday! I'm looking forward to meeting so many Ampliteers for the first time in person. We've been doing a trial run for the last few months and are ready to go.
2
3
65
We’re hosting our Amplitude Investor Day tomorrow morning on a livestream 10am-Noon PT. I'm looking forward to taking questions in realtime!
Register and see the agenda here:
3
6
59
I’m very excited to announce the availability of Snowflake-native Amplitude today!
Built with Snowpark Container Services, you can access self-serve, behavioral insights without data ever leaving
@SnowflakeDB
Signup here:
4
6
58
Just spoke at
@SaaStrAnnual
sharing 4 lessons to grow to $100M and beyond: 1) Culture of product innovation 2) Build new products like a mini startup 3) The 3 stages of exec hires 4) Early stage founder to large company executive mental switch
#saastr
3
6
54
GA4 is terrible, that's why we built marketing analytics into Amplitude. It's now a top source of new Amplitude customers Put the word out!
Google Analytics 4 is so unusable that there is now a black market for old Google Analytics 3 accounts from abandoned projects that can be repurposed.
105
179
2K
3
3
52
.
@Amplitude_HQ
reported its 2022 Q1 earnings yesterday. It was a great quarter, and I want to continue to be transparent about the feedback and questions we're getting. Here is a Q&A recap from our earnings call. Full transcript here:
1
2
55
.
@Amplitude_HQ
reported its Q2 earnings yesterday. It was a great quarter, and we continue to see many opportunities for growth. Here's a recap of the Q&A on today's call. Full recording here:
2
6
54
Today
@Amplitude_HQ
reported Q4 and 2023 earnings. It was our biggest year yet for product innovation, and we ended Q4 with a record number of enterprise logo wins. Here's my recap of the Q&A portion of the call.
3
1
51
My most valuable single meeting of the year,
@Amplitude_HQ
customer advisory board. It’s the highest bandwidth input into product, messaging, and customer motion I get. One thing that’s clear: “everyone is making tough budget decisions, need to show ROI for infrastructure”
1
2
50
Amplitude's is committed to supporting reproductive rights for women, transgender, and gender non-conforming individuals.
In response to yesterday's Supreme Court ruling, I sent this note to our team:
1
0
48
Massive turnout for Amplify!!! 1700 people at The Masonic- the LARGEST gathering of product of product people as of today. Congrats to the Amplitude team for putting it on!
@Amplitude_HQ
#amplifypm
1
8
46
We're going beyond Product Analytics for the first time today in Amplitude's 9 year history. I'll start off by introducing a new Amplitude: The Digital Optimization System: (Does that look fancy or what!)
2
4
47
Great turnout for Amplify 2022- over 1000 product and growth people in Vegas!!! 🎉🎉🎉
#Amplify22
0
5
46
@nikitabier
Incredible retention rate, one of the best I've seen in social. Very reminiscent of early Facebook: >50% d90 retention with 10+ friends.
(Also always love seeing an
@Amplitude_HQ
chart in the wild. Thank you
@an21m
for setting them up!)
1
0
44
Announcing the largest set of product launches in Amplitude history: Amplitude CDP (with 10M events for free!), marketing analytics with campaign reporting, experiment results, data tables, expanded partnership with Snowflake. Full overview here:
1
8
43
Today
@Amplitude_HQ
reported its Q1 2024 earnings. Green shoots continue and our opportunity to lead the digital analytics category remains unchanged. Here's a recap of the Q&A portion of our call.
3
1
40
Google Analytics users: Google is losing all of your data and force moving you to a new version. It’s a great time to move to a current gen analytics platform like Amplitude- we’ve never broken backwards compatibility on your data for over 10 years now.
2
2
39
Product is becoming the revenue and growth center at every organization, and as a part of that shift product people are gaining way more influence. That's why we’re launching the first-ever
#Product50
list along with
@G2dotcom
and
@VentureBeat
2
8
37
Amplitude has a unique vantage point into digital products and the leaders behind them. I'm excited to share
@Amplitude_HQ
's inaugural Product Report. Here are our predictions for the next hottest products and insights from these product leaders:
2
6
37
We shared
@Amplitude_HQ
's Q3 earnings today, and it was a strong quarter. Our highest quarter ever for new land bookings. As always, here is a recap of the Q&A portion of the call. Full recording here:
3
6
32
Excited to share that Amplitude has raised a $50M Series E. More to come soon:
0
2
35
We're
#3
on the enterprise list
@FastCompany
's Most Innovative Companies. This is just the beginning for
@Amplitude_HQ
:
2
2
34
Today
@Amplitude_HQ
reported its Q2 2024 earnings. Our top priority is reaccelerating growth, and we're making great progress. Here's a recap of the Q&A portion of the call.
3
2
34
I'm excited to announce
@Ajenstat
as Amplitude's new Chief Product Officer. Tableau is the grandfather of making data self service. A lot of Amplitude's innovation (chart controls, cohorts, microscope) was inspired by what Francois and team had built. Welcome to Amplitude!🩷🩷🩷
It’s Day 1 for my next journey. I’m beyond excited to share that I’m joining the
@Amplitude_HQ
team as their new Chief Product Officer. I 🩷data and I 🩷 building products that customers 🩷. I now get to combine all of these to help customers build incredible products.
#datafam
29
6
238
1
1
31
Meeting with the legendary
@tonyfernandes
of
@AirAsia
thanks for coming to visit
@amplitudemobile
!!
1
3
31
Data myth: Control of data should be centralized w/ data scientists. Nice idea, but not scalable. Self-serve tools allow anyone in an org to use data, answer questions, and deeply understand their customers. This helps everyone move faster
#eWEEKChat
3
2
33
Yesterday
@Amplitude_HQ
reported Q2 2023 earnings. We beat expectations, raised our guidance, and expect to be free-cash-flow-positive going forward. Here's my usual recap of the Q&A portion of our call. Transcript:
5
1
32
Data quality is the largest blocker to successfully using Product Analytics. I'm excited to announce we've acquired Iteratively to help all Amplitude customers with data governance and quality. Welcome
@iteratively
@patrickt010
@ondrej421
to Amplitude!
2
5
32
#Amplify22
was a real breakout moment for
@Amplitude_HQ
. We had 1,200 people in Vegas and and 6,000 for the virtual event. Here are the highlights:
2
2
32
I'm excited to welcome
@Amplitude_HQ
's first President,
@hansencloud
! Thomas will be leading our GTM organization and I'm excited to work with him for Amplitude's next stage of growth:
5
3
32
Analytics has been difficult to use. Whether you're building or using a tool, each step of setting up analytics is hard.
Today, I'm sharing a new vision for analytics: Amplitude Made Easy. It radically simplifies starting and scaling with analytics:
2
9
31
Introducing Amplitude AI:
AI goes a lot deeper for Amplitude and has always been part of our secret plan to win this category. We're publicly sharing our vision to create self improving products for the first time.
1
4
31
This is an excellent example of how a high performance data driven product organization runs. Twitter was able to make a big and bold decision about its product market fit quickly whereas others would have struggled to decide for years or even worse done nothing.
I respectfully disagree with the conclusion of this article. The speed at which Twitter built Fleets (& retired it) is actually a testament to improved innovation, speed,
& decision making. I'm more optimistic than ever.
25
36
622
0
1
31
The future is bright if you stick with it long enough. Go Product!
2
0
31
Right now every CEO is thinking about how to operate with less. Here's some advice on how to drive growth during a downturn from
@Amplitude_HQ
board member
@gradypb
:
2
3
31
Today
@Amplitude_HQ
reported Q3 2023 earnings. For the second quarter in a row, we beat expectations and raised our guidance. Here's my recap of the Q&A portion of our call.
1
1
30
@TurnerNovak
@Amplitude_HQ
@Nasdaq
1) Top talent wants to work in a place where outstanding performance is recognized and celebrated. We spend a lot of time a) making sure everyone feels welcomed and part of the team and b) celebrating and rewarding people's wins.
1
3
30
@antoniogm
The real story is that as much as I would like not to, we are forced to use Google Analytics for some search analytics because it anti-competitively uses undocumented APIs from Google search. We're working on raising the issue with the FTC.
1
4
29
Finally, I wanted to share the note I sent out to our team about it (with one confidential part redacted):
1
0
28
Incredibly proud of the team at
@Amplitude_HQ
this week. We hosted Amplitude's first ever product conference and had 1,200 attendees hearing about the future of product. Special shoutout to those that made it happen:
@leahRBkahn
@merfay9
@CaraHarshman
@itsnatef
@sandhya
0
2
28
As an Asian American, thank you
@saranormous
for saying it better than I ever could:
1
0
27
Amplitude 2023 second half kickoff! Very excited to share Amplitude’s long term vision and strategy with all 700 Ampliteers today. Hello to our offices in SF, New York, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and everywhere you are. Let’s go H2!
1
0
27
One of the things I talked about today at
@SaaStr
was going public, and why direct listings are the way to go. More of my thoughts on that in
@FortuneMagazine
1
3
25
Forrester Wave: Go
@Amplitude_HQ
!
@Forrester
named us a strong performer in its Customer Analytics Technologies Report. Here’s the full report:
6
5
26
1/ When
@curtisbliu
,
@paladin314159
, and I founded Amplitude 10 years ago, we knew that data would change the way people build products. Data is a powerful way to understand what people want. Don’t look at what they tell you, look at what they do.
1
1
26
@TurnerNovak
@Amplitude_HQ
@Nasdaq
My two favorite Slack channels are feature-releases (shipping new product) and win-reports (sales wins). One of my favorite parts is seeing our engineering team celebrate closed deals. This was my cofounder yesterday for example:
1
0
26
It’s time for the tech industry to embrace diversity as a priority.
@curtisbliu
and I are committed to building a diverse company and board at
@Amplitude_HQ
#FoundersForChange
0
0
26
We've always been under the radar as a company and I'm glad to now get a real opportunity to share what we're up to. We now work with 23 of the Fortune 100 and a lot of other amazing companies including Atlassian, Instacart, Intuit, Walmart, and NBC.
1
1
26
We're now offering a better pricing model for startups and small businesses: Monthly Tracked Users. MTUs is easier to track for customers and better aligns to your growth. We're also offering unlimited events(!!) per MTU up to 1 million MTUs.
3
3
24
Very exciting innovation at Amplitude hackathon demos today. I think I just saw the future of managing product data!
@Amplitude_HQ
0
2
19
Welcome Andrew Casey as Amplitude's new CFO!
He and I are long term oriented together on Amplitude's success. He also has a genuine passion for the space and is one of the most customer oriented CFOs I've ever met.
0
1
24
The systemic racism and injustice in America is not ok. I stand with the black community to fight for justice.
It's 2020 and we have to do better. It’s our responsibility to change the system.
1
4
22
4/ When I heard she was looking to join her first board on Twitter I had to reach out. 6 months later and I'm excited to have her be part of
@Amplitude_HQ
's board. Welcome,
@catherinewong
!
1
0
22
Today's violent assault on the Capitol to interfere with the democratic process is despicable and un-American. I will strongly oppose any attempt to undermine the democratic process of this country both as a citizen of this country and as CEO of Amplitude.
1
5
23
The power of data driven product at Facebook in 2008:
1) Spanish internationalization increased signups by 10%
2) 100ms faster site speed = 3% more activity
3) Number of friends is the single factor that correlates most highly with a user's activity
1
1
23
Thanks
@AIMagazine_BC
for sharing
@Amplitude_HQ
’s journey. Fun to look back at how far we’ve come and where we’re headed next!
0
2
22
Congratulations
@reinpk
@ivolo
@calvinfo
@ianstormtaylor
on an incredible outcome for
@segment
. I remember
@curtisbliu
and I coming by your house in Russian Hill in 2012 to talk about analytics. Who knew what would happen- excited to see you with
@twilio
!
0
0
22
Thanks to the Amplitude team for their great execution and hard work for Q3! Excited for what’s ahead.
2
0
21
@siddhantsahu92
@akothari
@bgurley
Add
@ericvishria
to the list. I have learned more from him than anyone else as CEO over the last 10 years. I don't think I've met another founder who's spoken more highly of their Series A board member.
0
0
2
It's been special working with
@gradypb
as a board member. It's rare to get someone at the growth stage who makes as much of an impact as he does. He was the first VC who did a better job pitching Amplitude to me than I did to him!
1/ In a digital world, the product *is* the business -- and the product function becomes a revenue center.
@Amplitude_HQ
has become the lifeline for companies to connect their product to business outcomes so they don’t get left behind.
1
10
101
1
1
21
Congratulations
@anneleeskates
!! Proud of what you've done as an investor and excited to see you at
@a16z
1/ New year, new job! I joined a16z as an investment partner on the consumer team. Beyond excited to work with the amazing team
@conniechan
@andrewchen
@jeff_jordan
@pmarca
@Tocelot
@DCoolican
@ljin18
@btcarroccio
and partner with the next generation of entrepreneurs.
24
12
298
1
0
20
Introducing Amplitude Growth Engine: the next version of a rapid iteration product loop.
1
5
20
@n2parko
@Amplitude_HQ
@Nasdaq
The real opportunity is the rise of the Chief Product Officer as the most important executive in the enterprise and their need for tooling. We oriented around them very early at Amplitude and I think it's the biggest difference in our approach vs other "analytics" companies.
1
1
20
Great talks at
#Cohort22
today in San Francisco from
@fishmanaf
,
@Caroline_Huskey
,
@brunovfestrella
, and
@jesse_miller
. Fantastic start to coming back for in person events in San Francisco.
1
1
19
We allow them connect what they're building in the product to the success of their business. We also have over 20 customers that spend $1M/year or more with us- in some of our customers we are the largest spend alongside AWS.
1
0
19
@paulg
I remember how late we felt when starting Amplitude. All the VCs I talked to at the time (2013) thought analytics was a solved problem.
2
1
19
