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Mixpanel was some kind of side project.

When I left Slide, I was initially going to build a gaming company 6 months before gaming blew up. Unfortunately, I couldn't find myself building games because I wasn't staying up till 3-4 AM excited.

One night I scrapped it and started building Mixpanel strictly to learn how to scale systems since that was interesting to me. What better project to learn about it fastest then doing analytics?

Ever since then I've consistently been up past 1 AM =). Still excited. Still learning.

This was all still being in school so I couldn't focus on it full-time.