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How Fivetran fails
SaaS giveth, and SaaS can taketh away.
Sep 16, 2022
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How Snowflake fails
Climate change comes for us all.
Sep 2, 2022
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How dbt fails
For sale: data company, worn out.
Oct 7, 2022
43
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How an acquisition fails
And the simple story for how it doesn’t.
Jul 21, 2023
30
2
To my parents
From Minneapolis to Las Vegas.
Jun 30, 2023
82
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Internal tools make lousy startups
The inside of a company is a misleading market.
Oct 14, 2022
30
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A slur on Clubhouse
Will we look this time?
Feb 15, 2021
3
The data OS
Decentralization is overrated.
Sep 3, 2021
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Startups shouldn’t care about revenue
And data teams should make sure they don’t.
Mar 18, 2022
14
3
In the air
Now what?
Oct 17, 2025
43
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Disclose your angel investments
The community has given us a lot. We should be transparent about it.
Feb 18, 2022
8
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Ambition, fun and not
Cheat on enterprise sales objection handling.
Jul 4, 2025
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