Granted, that statement came from our customer and not incorrect, but these small things can be mis-interpreted.

Ultimately, RudderStack is infrastructure that moves first-party data between systems more like message queues.

Managed to copy the email though. Thanks for the pointer

This one is about privacy — what data an app chooses to collect and which third parties it intentionally sends that data to. The concern isn't that someone hacked those companies. The distinction is important for us.

Disclaimer: RudderStack founder.

I wanted to clarify that distinction because we've already had people reach out asking whether we were involved in collecting or using this data.

Its bad PR for us

Although the article doesn't accuse us of doing anything improper, we weren't contacted for comment, so I'd like to clarify our role.

We are customer data infrastructure, not a data broker. We do not buy, sell or monetize the customer data that passes through our systems.

Our role is analogous to infrastructure: customers choose what data to send, and RudderStack routes that data to the destinations they configure (analytics tools, data warehouses, marketing platforms, etc.). The customer owns the data and decides where it goes; RudderStack does not repurpose it for its own business.

Infrastructure providers like us should be held to high standards for security and privacy, but we should not be confused with companies that collect or monetize end-user data.

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Not sure if its obvious that people would leave OpenAI in troves to join Microsoft just to be with Sam.

OpenAI continues to develop core AI offered over API. Microsoft builds the developer ecosystem around it -- that's Sam's expertise anyway. Microsoft has made a bunch of investment in the developer ecosystem in GitHub and that fits the theme. Assuming Sam sticks around.

Also, the way the tweet is worded (looking forward to working with OpenAI), seems like its a truce negotiated by Satya?

Plus giant competitors like Google, Facebook might step in to fill the void.

We recently launched a new product called Profiles to solve the technical challenges around identity resolution — detailed here on our blog (https://www.rudderstack.com/blog/why-it-s-hard-to-build-a-36...).

The problem is one that we are intimately familiar with. At my previous company, these engineering hurdles prevented us from shipping ML projects that had the potential to make bottom-line impact.

Profiles is a data unification product that allows you to specify important customer traits, then runs the joins and computations automatically, producing an identity graph, user features, and full customer 360 table in your warehouse.

We created a public project, called Profile Builder, that showcases much of Profile’s functionality. Check out the repo for a quickstart project that showcases the basics, and please give us your feedback.

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>The FTC has been more active on anti-trust issues in the past two years than at any time in the past 30

FTC being more active in past two years over previous 30 is a strong statement.

Have seen FTC going against Amazon because the FTC chair had published prior work against Amazon's practices. Not defending Amazon but FB/Google are a much bigger threat than Amazon.

We recently launched a new product called Profiles to solve the technical challenges around identity resolution — detailed here on our blog (https://www.rudderstack.com/blog/why-it-s-hard-to-build-a-36...).

The problem is one that we are intimately familiar with. At my previous company, these engineering hurdles prevented us from shipping ML projects that had the potential to make bottom-line impact.

Profiles is a data unification product that allows you to specify important customer traits, then runs the joins and computations automatically, producing an identity graph, user features, and full customer 360 table in your warehouse.

We created a public project, called Profile Builder, that showcases much of Profile’s functionality. Check out the repo for a quickstart project that showcases the basics, and please give us your feedback.