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Dan, thank you! I has been fun competing with you.

I remember the golden days :)

I've been following your journey post Optimizely! Hope your new ventures turn out to be equally fun and fulfilling.

I think it was a time when bootstrapping was a thing.. I feel its scary for new startups to bootstrap since the last decade with huge fundings, especially with funding in billions becoming a normal with the ongoing AI craze.

https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/largest-ai-startup-funding-de...

I think that's more skewed towards the AI startups. Other startups have rather seen a dip in recent times, at least in India.

AI inference is expensive, hence, funding is needed. In future, when AI infra becomes cheaper, we will see more bootstrapped AI startups too.

Congrats to you both!! Paras- you guys were always one of the ones we looked up to when starting Amplitude way back in 2012.

Thanks Spencer! You've built an amazing product, we're hugely inspired by Amplitude.

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