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Stitch Fix

7 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 18, 2016 by Eric Colson · said 18 times in 7 episodes since 2013 · across every show →

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brought up most by Eric Colson (9), Carolyn Mooney (3), John Foreman (2), Tristan Handy (1), Peter Fenton (1), Pete DeJoy (1), Bindu Reddy (1)

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Mar 18, 2016 neutral
Assertion Supported
Stitch Fix has no browse pages, product pages, or search boxes
“Nowhere on the site or on the app are you gonna find a browse page or a product page or a search box.”
Eric Colson Mar 18, 2016 ▶ 5:01 Combining Machine Learning With Expert Human Judgement // Eric Colson, Stitch Fix
Mar 18, 2016 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
100% of Stitch Fix sales pass through its recommendation engine
“100% of what we sell goes through our recommendation engine.”
Eric Colson Mar 18, 2016 ▶ 6:53 Combining Machine Learning With Expert Human Judgement // Eric Colson, Stitch Fix
Mar 18, 2016 positive
Disclosure
Stitch Fix tests UI variations to isolate complementary human stylist inputs
“We can reveal it by subtly varying the information we show our humans in this custom UI we built, and we can figure out what pieces of information help them with decisions and which pieces don't, and that way we can ensure that they only make positive contribu…”
Eric Colson Mar 18, 2016 ▶ 12:48 Combining Machine Learning With Expert Human Judgement // Eric Colson, Stitch Fix
Mar 18, 2016
Assertion Not checkable as stated
No single demographic segment makes up 1% of Stitch Fix's customer base
“We do not have a single segment that we can claim is, ah, representative of our customer. There's not even a one percent segment. Like our largest, we tried cutting them in every way. There's no rhyme or reason. It's everybody.”
Eric Colson Mar 18, 2016 ▶ 20:16 Combining Machine Learning With Expert Human Judgement // Eric Colson, Stitch Fix
Mar 18, 2016 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Stitch Fix employs 65 PhDs on its data science team
“We have a, one of the largest data science teams in Silicon Valley. You have 65 PhDs working on this.”
Eric Colson Mar 18, 2016 ▶ 15:10 Combining Machine Learning With Expert Human Judgement // Eric Colson, Stitch Fix
Mar 18, 2016 positive
Assertion Supported
Stitch Fix employs over 2,500 human stylists
“For humans, we have amassed an army of over 2500 human stylists, right?”
Eric Colson Mar 18, 2016 ▶ 7:54 Combining Machine Learning With Expert Human Judgement // Eric Colson, Stitch Fix
Dec 11, 2020 positive
Opinion
Handy: Stitch Fix's 2016 blog post best frames the data engineering role
“There's a guy at Stitch Fix who wrote a blog post called Engineers Shouldn't Write ETL back in 2016, and I still think that that is the best point of view on this topic today.”
Tristan Handy Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 48:10 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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