data science

9 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Nov 9, 2023 by Ramesh Johari · across every show →

Everything said about data science, oldest first

Nov 9, 2023 negative
Insight
Johari: Measuring teams solely on impact stifles creative, strategic work
“It's basically because if you're measured narrowly on impact and that's all anyone sees around you, then it's very hard to engage with the creative aspect of business change and the strategic aspects of business change.”
Ramesh Johari Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 54:15 Marketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more | Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor)
Nov 9, 2023 positive
Insight
Johari: AI puts more pressure on human data scientists, not less
“What AI has done for us is it's massively expanded the frontier of things we could think about our problem, hypotheses we could have, maybe things we could test. It's just an astronomical explosion of explanations and ideas and principle. And I really think ac…”
Ramesh Johari Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 1:09:48 Marketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more | Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor)
Nov 9, 2023
Insight
Johari: Every marketplace relies on data science for finding, making, and learning matches
“Every single thing I just said, finding potential matches, making matches, and then learning about those matches, and then, you know, cycling back again, that is the data science of marketplaces. And I feel like every marketplace that you could think of, you k…”
Ramesh Johari Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 10:54 Marketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more | Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor)
Nov 9, 2023 negative
Insight
Johari: AI-Generated Text Can Be Dangerous in Data Science
“In the same way that AI generates a lot of ideas, AI also generates a lot of pros. And in data science, that can actually be deadly because you're getting more explanations that sometimes maybe are extraneous, you know?”
Ramesh Johari Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 1:22:18 Marketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more | Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor)
Jan 4, 2024 negative
Insight
Antin: Companies must stop siloing separate research and insights disciplines
“They were like, listen, we have all these different people throwing insights over the transom. And it's great. We want to hear from the data scientists, from the product specialists, from the customer service people and the voice of the customer, whatever, all…”
Judd Antin Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 49:44 The UX Research reckoning is here | Judd Antin (Airbnb, Meta)
Sep 25, 2025 neutral
Insight
Husain: AI evals are just standard data science applied to AI products
“People say the word eval is trying to kind of like carve out this new thing, and saying, you know, evals, and then A-B testing, but if you zoom out, it's the same data science as before, and I think that's what's causing the confusion is, hey, we need data sci…”
Hamel Husain Sep 25, 2025 ▶ 1:19:26 Why AI evals are the hottest new skill for product builders | Hamel Husain & Shreya Shankar
Apr 19, 2026 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Singhal: Product roles will see influx of engineering, data, and design talent
“Meanwhile, I think a lot of people going into product might be coming from design, might be coming from data science, might be coming from engineering because the ones that have judgment, the ones that can talk, the ones that want to stay current, they might b…”
Nikhyl Singhal Apr 19, 2026 ▶ 1:10:50 Why half of product managers are in trouble | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)
Jul 9, 2026 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mosseri: Strongest product staff will convert from design and data science
“I actually think some of our strongest product staff are going to be converts from design and from data science who are just looking to expand their reach.”
Adam Mosseri Jul 9, 2026 ▶ 10:14 The rise of taste, human authenticity and judgment in an AI world | Adam Mosseri (Head of IG)
Aug 2, 2026
Disclosure
Verrilli spends 10x more time in data, talks less to data scientists
“So I don't know what the future of data science looks like, but I think as a product manager, I've spent less time in the last year talking to a data scientist than I ever have in my career, even though I've probably spent 10 times more time in data and unders…”
Tom Verrilli Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 36:50 This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)
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