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Didnt think of the FinOps angle - thats a goodd one! The annoying thing about filtering by AWS mentions is that every other company seems to list all the clpud platforms like in a list, even if they use just one of them. Adding FinOps is a good additional filter in that case

Definitely would recommend the Rands Slack channel though only catch is you need to be in some sort of engineering leadership role (not sure if the criteria changed though). But I’m sure if you ask nicely, they’ll let you in. Lots of channels related to career advice there

Also would recommend just going through this huge list of tech companies that use Slack to see if any of them fits you: https://bloomberry.com/data/slack/

Thanks! Those are helpful!

For number one, any idea the best person to contact in those companies? They probably dont got a head of AI person so wondering if a VP of Engineering is the next logical person.

Also I haven’t thought of forums/communities! Any idea whether I am more likely to find small companies or big enterprises there?

i dont even use a crm blushes. To be honest, im just starting out with outbound so im not doing anything sophisticated. Just want to import a list of leads, enrich with contact details and their tech stack data. Thats all.

Ppl keep recommending me tools like apollo and zoominfo but they way too powerful for me. I dont care about how many data providers they have because i just care about those 2 thinfs

I know someone who got addicted to the influencer money in Tiktok and dropped out of a med school program because making 5 figures a month, taking videos of you wearing fancy clothes was way better than slogging thru med school

You guys need a way for users to download flat csvs. And also a Zoominfo or Apollo integration if you want more SDR/BDRs to use it. I like the company info you return but you lack contact details right? That is important to users like me…

Other than that the data is what I exactly need. Was able to find businesses that use Github, Gitlab and Grafana rather easily!

[update] just signed up and very curious where the data comes from? I managed to find businesses that use Github which is incredibly useful for me. It is missing some Javascript frameworks like NextJS but i think thats not a big deal…

Where does the technographic data come from? Is it scraped from websites? Or are you relying on another 3rd party source?

Is there anyway to get some trends data like how Builtwith has trend insights on how many of the top 100k websites use something like NextJS over time?

I feel like OP has either never worked outside of tech startups/Silicon Valley or never worked pre-2012 (dont wanna assume tho and this is not meant in a disparaging manner)

A lot of these things exists in other industries for awhile. Like lack of trust (you have to be from 8 to 6 in a lot of Wall St firms) and fear of layoffs (everyone who worked during the financial crisis in 07-08 know this all too well). I would say they are the norm, and the things that OP missed was the exception

“ Secondly, the support for these movements mostly stems from an aging demographic, a lot of which are just passing their last few years.”

Is there data backing this? Because i feel like there’s also a large young segment (esp young men) who support this current administration and what they stand for