data

“I've seen the power firsthand from working at Facebook of what data can do to help us make better products, especially for people at scale, to help us reduce the bias in our intuitions and how we think about what is the way that we should prioritize.”

“Between this kind of activation usage, aha moment to this conversion moment, Actually, there is a big gap and what is the gap? How you can understand the gap, how you can guide people along that journey is basically you need to have a very good grasp of data. …”

“Now always start with words. Do not start with data. You always start with words.”

“People often think that they get scale economies through data. And I'd say that that's possible, but it's rare. And the reason it's rare is not because there aren't scale economies in data, but rather that the range of scale that the existing competitors have…”

“Data is a compass, not a map. Right? The idea that we ultimately need to determine what mountain to climb, right, with the intuition we have, with our understanding, and with our empathy and yet data is ultimately what helps us climb the mountain we choose, an…”

“Data is more like a compass than a GPS. Right? Like if you look at data as a way of like giving you the answer, you're always wrong. You're always wrong or you're slow. Wrong or slow or sometimes both. Because mostly data doesn't give you the answer. It just t…”

“If you're looking at a piece of data and the result tells you something that your intuition tells you is like insanely wrong, like that you're probably not right. First believe your intuition and go and prove yourself right. Like don't just take it at first gl…”

“You have LLMs, which have generalized pretty, you know, like in fascinating ways, but they've kind of also asymptoted in that you know, we have run out of data for the most part.”

“What you really want is you want to diagnose with data and treat with design.”