Instacart

“We've achieved profitable unit economics, it happened in the summer”

“If you just take the predictions out of Google Maps API, you'll be able to explain about 25% of the variance. If you look at the models that we built internally that use a lot more of our historical data, we can get up to about 50% of the variance explained.”

“Ah, and we're increasingly testing, ah, reversing it, and actually giving discounts when we have a lot of capacity to try to incentivize demand to times when we have lots of shoppers available.”

“90% of our customers are repeat customers.”

“Since the beginning of last year, we've grown revenue 500%.”

“They spend about 500 dollars a month with us”

“And in the next 12 months, we're gonna be a profitable company, cash flow positive.”

“Engineering is around say a hundred people. Out of that there's about 25 that are data related. About five are data engineering. About 10 are analytics, which is really decision science, helping to inform the decisions that the product managers or operations t…”

“We recompute our plans every minute in every one of our markets”

“All of our production data is in Postgres, and we will read from the secondaries in AWS. We push all of the Postgres data into Redshift and do a lot of more intensive batch computations off of Redshift. The data science teams are using either Python or R we do…”

“Over 35 companies use it in open source, you know, ING, Instacart, Brexasana.”

“Instacart's a very prominent one and one of the more recent ones that have talked about their use of ClickHouse and in an effort to obviously control their spiraling data warehouse costs, they've looked to ClickHouse to help solve that problem, but also in ter…”