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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Amplitude, Inc..\n\nSpenser Skates co-founded Amplitude, a product analytics company, in 2012 and is its CEO. The company went public in 2021. He previously worked as an algorithmic trader at DRW and studied bioengineering at MIT, where he twice won Battlecode, its largest programming competition.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/spenserskates\n- X: https://x.com/spenserskates\n\n## What Spenser builds\n\n- [Amplitude](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amplitude.md), graded B, 66.3/100, in Product analytics \u0026 experimentation. Amplitude is a hosted product analytics platform that records user events and answers questions about funnels, retention, cohorts, experiments and feature flags. Agents reach it through an official remote MCP server, REST APIs and the `amp` command line. Co-founder, Amplitude, Inc., researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Curtis Liu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/curtis-liu/), Co-founder, Amplitude, Inc.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Spenser Skates?\n\nSpenser Skates co-founded Amplitude, a product analytics company, in 2012 and is its CEO. The company went public in 2021. He previously worked as an algorithmic trader at DRW and studied bioengineering at MIT, where he twice won Battlecode, its largest programming competition.\n\n### What does Amplitude, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Amplitude from Amplitude, Inc.. Amplitude is a hosted product analytics platform that records user events and answers questions about funnels, retention, cohorts, experiments and feature flags. Agents reach it through an official remote MCP server, REST APIs and the amp command line.\n\n### How are Spenser's tools graded?\n\nAmplitude is graded B, 66.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/amplitude\n- https://amplitude.com/contact\n- https://amplitude.com/company\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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