Amplitude

• Culture is the most important thing: I have seen this company scale and change a lot over the last few years. Through all of that change, the cultural values of the company (Humility, Ownership, Growth Mindset) have remained intact. If there's a cultural mismatch anywhere in the company (ICs all the way to C-level), leadership isn't afraid to make hard decisions because culture has always been the #1 thing.

• Passionate customers: The company has a lot of customers who love the product and use it extensively in their daily jobs. This includes thousands of users at big Fortune 100 companies. As the company has launched new products (CDP, Experiment, Session Replay), these customers have switched over from existing vendors on to these new products because of their experience with the core analytics product.

• Really smart R&D team: The Product, Design, and Engineering teams are amazing at their jobs. The engineering org is efficient and is relatively small compared to B2B companies at similar scale. The engineers get to solve hard distributed systems problems because of the data scale and also, complex UX architecture problems because of the feature-rich product suite.

• Growth slowdown: A lot of the company's revenue was made up of big tech companies that have been impacted since early 2022. This has slowed down the company's growth rate for the last couple of years. I am confident in leadership's strategy (especially the new CPO), in re-accelerating the company's growth.

• Not enough in-person interactions: For someone who likes the hybrid model and enjoys being in-person a couple of days a week to collaborate, I wish more folks would come to the office in person. I understand that it's hard for some folks to be in person every week, I wish the company encouraged more frequent travel for remote employees or more team/company events.

Really appreciate the transparency around big decisions recently. I would recommend the leadership to continue talking more about the "Why" behind the decisions.