Prohovnik: Product leaders should treat intuition as a valid data type
Maya Prohovnik · Building Anchor, selling to Spotify, and lessons learned | Maya Prohovnik (Head of Podcast Product) · Sep 28, 2023 · at 20:34
Maya Prohovnik, Spotify's Head of Podcast Product, discusses how to frame intuition and qualitative experience alongside metrics.
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“I would think of your gut actually as a type of data. And I think it's a totally valid one. And it's just, I think you need to be clear that that's what you're working with. But then it should be taken as seriously as any other data point.”
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