54: The Center of the Modern Data Stack with Neil Rahilly of Mixpanel

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Neil’s programming hobby turned into a career and how he cold-contacted Mixpanel for a job (2:28)
• Lessons learned from nine years at Mixpanel (5:05)
• Defining product analytics (8:06)
• How Mixpanel has evolved into the product it is today (10:56)
• The importance of Mixpanel’s real-time analysis (19:52)
• Looking at Arb, Mixpanel’s own arbitrary segmentation database (23:44)
• The business impact that the rise of the cloud data warehouse had on Mixpanel (34:56)
• Sub-second latencies and real-time use cases (49:05)
• Career advice from Neil (1:02:02)

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