Firm News, 01.13.22
There is no better way to ring in the New Year than to recognize outstanding talent. Today, Amplify Partners is proud to celebrate the promotion ...
Company Building, 01.19.22
irect your focus, align understanding across your company, and drive impact. Using the right metrics specific to your sales motion helps break you out of generic numbers to user understanding and true process visibility.
Company Building, 01.12.22
Tracking recruiting metrics at the very beginning and end of funnels allows you to identify if you are effectively attracting, interviewing, and closing the right candidates.
Portfolio News, 12.16.21
The promise of machine learning in the enterprise has been a story of hype, myth and ever-shifting goalposts (and budgets). The first wave of adopters ...
Industry Trends, 12.14.21
Today, I’m in awe as we celebrate the 100th issue of Projects to Know. I never planned to write a newsletter. A few years ago ...
Company Building, 12.13.21
Hex is the first application bringing the idea of versioning, collaboration, and publishing to analyses. For years, I’ve been saying that we have to treat analyses like code; you need to branch, peer review, merge, and then publish. I always thought of it in a code-first paradigm because that was the paradigm that made sense to me. Hex’s approach is different, but it’s one that works.
Company Building, 12.10.21
Do you remember the first time you experienced the Internet? Shanea Leven does. She was 13, and she realized that online, she could be anyone and do anything. On the Technical Women podcast, she shares how her path unfolded and the definitions she’s rewriting now.
Firm News, 12.08.21
The mission of Sigstore was to create an easy-to-use, trustable and efficient digital signing tool to confirm the origin of software artifacts. In much the same way Let’s Encrypt made certificates for TLS ubiquitous, Sigstore aims to make software signing ubiquitous.
Company Building, 12.01.21
Today we’re excited to launch Technical Recruiting Playbooks, a monologue style podcast (with potentially a few surprise guests along the way!) by me, Natasha Katoni, Amplify’s Head of Talent. We’ll start out with the basics of setting up a successful recruiting system that’s ripe for problem-solving. From there, we’ll dive deeper into higher-level strategic plays.
Firm News, 11.23.21
In December 2020, I received a tip from one of the most talented engineers I know saying that I had to track down Connor Hicks. ...
Company Building, 11.17.21
Q4 is generally the most challenging time to hire as candidates are less motivated to change jobs when they are focused on upcoming travel, family time, and New Year cheer. When building your hiring plans, it's essential to keep this in mind and prepare yourself for a dip in candidate movement come winter.
Company Building, 11.16.21
Amy Heineike started her career working on transportation systems in the UK. She never imagined that one day, she’d be one of the original team members at a fast-growing Bay Area startup, exploring a new and quickly-changing technology. Amy tells us how she got into NLP, what she has learned about turning a technology into a tool people can actually use, and how she has approached building a team.
