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Is My Second Product Failing?

Casey Accidental

I’ll explain how I think about these decisions as a product leader and give more context on the journey of developing entirely new products inside a company. By general standards, the team found product/market fit, but will never be able to inflect growth of the combined company. Google on GCP? Amazon on Alexa?

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Tabular: Turning Your Data Swamp into a Data Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg

Clouded Judgement

The rise of foundation models and generative AI only furthers this trend. Iceberg is an open table format developed by Ryan Blue and Dan Weeks (2 of the 3 co-founders of Tabular) while they were at Netflix. Iceberg leaned into the git functionality that software developers have become accustomed to.

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