A once great company run into the ground by the worst ever leader - Account Executive data.ai Employee Review

2.0
Apr 28, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

App Annie, which rebranded into data.ai and was subsequently sold to the supposedly crap competitor SensorTower, was an amazing place to work. Brilliant people, great investors, top clients, and all of us got stock options, the stage was set for a happy ending.

Cons

Enter new leadership. Even amongst useless, egomaniacal leaders (of which there are many), Our new leaders stood out for zero clue of how to take the company forward. Ousting the original brilliant, and putting in place talentless sycophants and yes men/women, we proceeded to not only fail to maintain the growth trajectory and utilise resources effectively, but our leader also managed to cause us all to lose money by not selling the company on the many occasions he could have. A sad sad end to what should have been a story of success. Farewell App Annie 2014-2020, you will always be the best company I worked for.

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5.0
Apr 1, 2025
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Pros

Was a good and flexible place to work. New company that acquired works differently but do things well for their staff.

Cons

Board wanted to sell which was disappointing

1
1.0
Feb 1, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Great engineering talent, true ML/AI experts - The hardest working sales team I've ever seen - #dreamteam - Rockstar CS team who handled the most difficult clients imaginable. - Platform was powered by very hard to acquire data. No easy feat to collect the data in a ever changing environment. - Company events (when we had them) were always "Premium" - Overall compensation was very competitive

Cons

- Poor CEO leadership and vision. Ted was incredibly disappointing, I would not recommend him any capacity. - Final M&A motion was extremely disappointing. Nothing like seeing your equity going to $0 overnight. Total kick in the b@lls. - Product Roadmap was driven by vanity metrics and KPIs. CPO didn't drive the roadmap with revenue and TAM expansion in mind.

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