# Spenser Skates

> Spenser Skates is co-founder, Amplitude of Inc.. Amplitude on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-27

Co-founder, Amplitude, Inc..

Spenser 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.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/spenserskates
- X: https://x.com/spenserskates

## What Spenser builds

- [Amplitude](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amplitude.md), graded B, 66.3/100, in Product analytics & 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.

## Works with

- [Curtis Liu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/curtis-liu/), Co-founder, Amplitude, Inc.

## Questions

### Who is Spenser Skates?

Spenser 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.

### What does Amplitude, Inc. make?

Anchor 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.

### How are Spenser's tools graded?

Amplitude is graded B, 66.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/amplitude
- https://amplitude.com/contact
- https://amplitude.com/company

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