Spenser Skates and Curtis Liu, Forbes 30 Under 30 alums, and Jeffrey Wang founded the San Francisco-based firm in 2014. It made the cut for the Forbes list of Next Billion-Dollar Startups in 2018, on its way to a $1 billion valuation in 2020. Its customers, which include Ford, Burger King, Walmart, Atlassian and Gap, use Amplitude’s software to optimize their products. Demand for Amplitude’s product spiked during the Covid-19 pandemic as companies had to figure out how best to engage customers on their online platforms. Skates connected with her on Twitter after Benchmark VC Bill Gurley posted that she’d make “an excellent board member.”

Source: Forbes July 14, 2021 13:07 UTC