# How Hackathons Can Drive Velocity and Disrupt Your Product Roadmap

Source: https://amplitude.com/en-us/blog/company-hackathon

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[Curtis Liu](/blog/author/curtis-liu)

[CTO and Co-founder, Amplitude](/blog/author/curtis-liu)

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[Hackathons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon) are a time honored tradition of many tech [companies](http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-hackathons-2017-6). They’re a time for everyone to break free from their day to day work and innovate. Here at Amplitude, hackathons have been a great way of bypassing the traditional processes of product development to disrupt our own roadmap, as well as an opportunity to foster cross functional teamwork and relationships. We’ve taken to doing a hackathon at the start of every quarter, and are coming hot off of our third with some fresh ideas and ambitious projects.

## Check out the highlights from our July Hackathon on the Engineering Blog >>

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Curtis Liu

CTO and Co-founder, Amplitude

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Curtis is the CTO & co-founder of Amplitude. He developed the core of Amplitude's technology and brings experience from Electronic Arts and Google. He studied EECS at MIT and is two-time winner of Battlecode, MIT's largest programming competition.

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