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by Dwolb 992 days ago
A rogue marketer at a former company spent weeks with Zapier "trying to improve analytics". They went way too far to the point of saying, "I almost re-built Segment with Zapier".

Needless to say the Rube Goldberg machine of Zaps was impossible to debug and all the data and metrics ended up being wrong for the whole quarter.

We ripped it all out and had to start fresh.

2 comments

It did a good job, then. How long would it have taken for the marketer to get their project prioritized if it hadn’t already demonstrated value?
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