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Curious. Since you both worked at Heap before, is there a potential conflict of interest or Non-compete that you may have/had to worry about ? I don't know the

• wgerard 7y ago
  Completely unaffiliated with any of the parties involved but recently familiar with both Heap and Segment: Segment (and presumably this solution) is more like an event mux/demux. All your disparate event sources connect in, and you send the data to places like Heap to visualize it. Segment's value is acting as a central, common location for your event data. Heap's primary value is visualization/analysis for things like retention/etc. You can collect data directly through Heap as well but I wouldn't say that's the primary value of it.
• malisper 7y ago
  We're a Segment competitor, not a Heap competitor (we actually support Heap as a destination). A significant number of Heap's users use both Segment and Heap. That's actually one of the big reasons we started Freshpaint. A lot of people would buy Heap for product analytics, but they would still setup manual event tracking for Segment for their other tools. We started Freshpaint so you won't need to setup event tracking at all.
• turbostyler 7y ago
  Enforcing a non-compete against non-founders in California is pretty much impossible.