Analytics Team

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Deng: Startups should hire a growth team before an analytics team
“And I think that the reason why growth team is, is, is the advice I would go with rather than to build an analytics team is because if you build an analytics team or a data science team, it's possible that no one's going to listen to them. Right. It's like, oh…”
Peter Deng Jun 22, 2025 ▶ 46:38 From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
DoorDash builds internal AI tools to empower non-technical staff with SQL
“Working to build these tools that will help not just our team in terms of time saving, And also to be honest, folks, folks are gonna use it on our team, but really to be able to empower non-technical users to be able to do things on their own and not have to t…”
Jessica Lachs Jul 14, 2024 ▶ 1:04:21 Building a world-class data org | Jessica Lachs (VP of Analytics and Data Science at DoorDash)
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Lachs: DoorDash analytics is a net importer of internal company talent
“What I didn't mention is how many folks we've actually had join the analytics team. From partner teams. So whether that was from engineering or from our ops team or marketing or finance, we've had a lot, we've actually had a lot more import. We are a net impor…”
Jessica Lachs Jul 14, 2024 ▶ 1:06:01 Building a world-class data org | Jessica Lachs (VP of Analytics and Data Science at DoorDash)
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Baker: Facebook's entire analytics team was once part of growth
“In fact, all of analytics back then was part of the growth team.”
Ed Baker Jun 23, 2017 ▶ 8:39 Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator

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