Curtis Liu

Curtis Liu is Spenser Skates’s friend from MIT and co-founder in the Sonalight and Amplitude story told in Spenser Skates, Founder & CEO, Amplitude. The episode says the two met casually in a dorm lounge while playing video games before later trying multiple startup projects together.

Curtis initially went to Google, then joined Spenser full-time. In the source, his role is mainly co-founder continuity: the team moved from early side projects into Sonalight, used Sonalight’s retention problem to build analytics, and then committed to Amplitude after customer discovery showed broader demand.

Connections

• Spenser Skates, Sonalight, Amplitude, and Jeffrey Wang - co-founder and company context.
• MIT, Google, Y Combinator, and Battlecode - early path and startup context.
• Technical Demo Retention Gap, Product Analytics, and Internal Tool Productization - product lessons tied to the founding team.