Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast, produced by the C.O. Alliance and brought to

its founder Cameron Herald.

In the second-in-command podcast, we talked to top COOs who share the insights, strategies,

and tactics that made them the chief behind the chief.

And now here's your host, Cameron Harold.

Our guest today is Taylor Brown, the C.O. and co-founder of FiveTran.

Taylor is passionate about helping good humans build awesome products.

He draws inspiration from his time as a liberal arts student at Amherst College, experience as a designer at North Social and a lifelong

athletic endeavors. Most recently, he's built FiveTran, a fully managed automated data integration

provider from an idea to a rapidly growing global business valued at more than 1.2 billion.

He believes that magic happens when you can build a simple yet powerful product that is truly innovative

and helps users solve a hard problem.

Taylor understands this is not only possible with an amazing team and is privileged to work with the best in the business.

So Taylor, welcome to the Second Command Podcast.

Cameron, thanks Todd for having me today.

Yeah, I appreciate it.

So just put it in layman's terms for us.

What's Five Trend really do?

Explain to a girl in a bar.

Okay, Five Train is an automated data integration provider and what that actually means in layman's terms is when you're a company, a business,

you're leveraging all these different software tools, whether it's for your ad,

you know, systems, your marketing systems,

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