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YC W12 co-founder and CTO who took Amplitude public at $5B
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Technical Depth · 96th percentile
- Founded the company behind amplitude/redux-query, a flagship open-source project with 1,099 stars on GitHub.
- Identified GitHub account @curtisliu confirmed by name match.
- GitHub account @curtisliu has been active for approximately 13 years (created January 2013).
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current co-founder and CTO of Amplitude Analytics, actively running the company since 2012.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Y Combinator W12 alum — Amplitude was part of YC's Winter 2012 batch.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Amplitude was co-founded with Spenser Skates and Jeffrey Wang.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)amplitude.com ranks #11,192 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Amplitude went public via direct listing in September 2021 with an IPO market cap of approximately $5.1B.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Founded the company behind amplitude/redux-query, a flagship open-source project with 1,099 stars on GitHub.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Two-time winner of Battlecode, MIT's largest programming competition, demonstrating early technical distinction.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Past co-founder of Sonalight, Inc., a prior startup he co-founded before Amplitude.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Identified GitHub account @curtisliu confirmed by name match.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)GitHub account @curtisliu has been active for approximately 13 years (created January 2013).
What you likely need
As the technical co-founder and CTO of a publicly traded analytics company that went through YC and scaled to a $5B+ IPO, you're at a stage where peer learning from other founder-CTOs who've navigated the public-company transition is most valuable. Events that connect you with other YC alumni who've taken companies public, or with engineering leaders scaling technical orgs at growth-stage and public companies, would be highest-signal for you right now.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA YC W12 alumni dinner with other founders who've taken their companies public, to share lessons on post-IPO product strategy and technical org scaling.
- tacticalA CTO roundtable with technical co-founders of public SaaS companies on managing engineering culture and velocity after IPO.
- introsA founders dinner hosted by Sequoia or Benchmark (both Amplitude investors) connecting portfolio CTOs for warm intros to AI-native enterprise buyers.
- positioningA positioning workshop with other analytics and developer-tools founders on differentiating in the AI-native analytics landscape against emerging competitors.
- hiringA hiring roundtable for technical co-founders at public companies on recruiting senior engineering leadership and retaining top talent post-IPO.
- introsAn MIT EECS alumni founder dinner to reconnect with technical peers who've built and scaled companies, for both hiring and co-investment intros.
- wellbeingA small wellbeing offsite for YC founders who've navigated the IPO process, focused on sustaining long-term founder energy through the public-company grind.