{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Grit","title":"No Reset Button: Reinventing Amplitude in a Post-AI World (Spenser Skates)","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/6299744f\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4636,"description":"Amplitude helped define the modern analytics stack, powering digital products with deep behavioral insights. But in a world shifting toward agentic interfaces and vertically integrated AI, even a category leader has to evolve.\nIn this episode, CEO Spenser Skates shares how he’s rethinking AI within the constraints of a 13-year-old codebase, why analytics remains Amplitude’s competitive edge—and why taking the company public early was a risk worth taking.\nChapters:\n00:00 Trailer\n00:43 Introduction\n01:26 AI is still very early\n05:48 The urgency of building from the ground up\n08:49 Bringing in new blood\n11:23 Higher valuations and going public\n15:00 Who’s leading who\n18:39 Markets being open and closed\n21:14 Being the incumbent in AI\n24:40 Slow innovation\n31:43 The ultimate founder\n37:06 Things willing to relinquish\n44:04 Being the person I want to be\n46:41 Between family and work\n50:08 Becoming the person you hate\n55:16 Chief general, chief justice, chief priest\n1:02:56 Tired founders\n1:04:32 Missing out\n1:14:51 Who Amplitude is hiring\n1:15:41 What Spenser means to Spenser\n1:16:54 Outro\nMentioned in this episode: OpenAI ChatGPT, Command AI, Oracle Corporation, Anthropic Claude, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Rippling, Stripe, Meta Platforms, Inc., Mark Zuckerberg, Figma, Canva, Peter Thiel, Anne Lee Skates, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Michael Jordan\nLinks:Connect with SpenserXLinkedInConnect with JoubinXLinkedInEmail: grit@kleinerperkins.com\nLearn more about Kleiner Perkins","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/jCea5f44KBONhOsyLyht9nXUrj2YBNfA6fc-kgyfWTM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/Lzk3NzAvMTY2Nzg2/MjQyOC1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}