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Why I Left Segment...

Why I left a $3.2 billion company to start my own...

Tejas Manohar.

Tejas Manohar

October 5, 2023

1 minutes

Tejas leaving Segment.

In 2016, I joined Segment CDP when the company only had around 40 employees. In 2019, I left to start Hightouch. Shortly after Segment was acquired for $3.2B. Check out my latest video to learn about:

  • My time at Segment
  • How Segment works
  • How the data warehouse changed everything
  • The architectural problems with CDPs
  • Why I started Hightouch

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