David Glueck

Data Science & Governance, Peloton Interactive · 1 appearance on the record.

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David Glueck is a data leader who has built and directed data engineering, machine learning, and business intelligence infrastructure across companies such as Peloton, Meta, WeWork, and Sailthru. He is recognized for developing the data science and engineering stacks at Bonobos to drive retail personalization and e-commerce analytics.

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0 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 2 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 assertions · 8 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how David argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Bonobos was the largest U.S. retail company founded online in 2015

“And now we're the largest U.S. Retail company that was founded online.”

David Glueck Jun 19, 2015 ▶ 0:15 David Glueck, Bonobos // Data Science & Engineering at Bonobos (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

How they sound: speaking style how? →

294 words/min while actually speaking · 50.2 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for David Glueck: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 4,102 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

What they said10 Episodes1

Everything David Glueck said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight

Data teams make a critical mistake by de-emphasizing operational reporting

“I think what I've seen as a trend in the industry, a lot of data teams are starting to try and de-emphasize the BI in reporting. They kind of see it as, ah, well, you know, it's a lot of work, which it really is, and in the end it doesn't add as much value to …”

David Glueck Jun 19, 2015 ▶ 3:45 David Glueck, Bonobos // Data Science & Engineering at Bonobos (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Insight

Separating data engineering from data science ties expensive employees' hands

“If you're hiring a bunch of data scientists and then making them dependent on a different organization for engineering is basically Hiring some really expensive people, and then tying their hands behind their back, and you know, that's not a smart thing to do,…”

David Glueck Jun 19, 2015 ▶ 5:03 David Glueck, Bonobos // Data Science & Engineering at Bonobos (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Insight

Simple recommendation algorithms deliver 80 to 90 percent of the total benefit

“You get 80, 90% of the benefit from a very simple algorithm, and most of the really hard math and work goes into closing the gap on the rest of it.”

David Glueck Jun 19, 2015 ▶ 10:01 David Glueck, Bonobos // Data Science & Engineering at Bonobos (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Insight

Native apps distract engineering teams by forcing them to build features thrice

“Because it's a, you know, huge distraction. You have to develop every feature, you know, three times for iPhone, Android, and the web.”

David Glueck Jun 19, 2015 ▶ 16:45 David Glueck, Bonobos // Data Science & Engineering at Bonobos (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Assertion Contradicted

Bonobos was the largest U.S. retail company founded online in 2015

“And now we're the largest U.S. Retail company that was founded online.”

David Glueck Jun 19, 2015 ▶ 0:15 David Glueck, Bonobos // Data Science & Engineering at Bonobos (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Insight

Direct-to-consumer models allow superior inventory optimization by avoiding physical store distribution

“And being that we don't have to worry about distributing our inventory across hundreds or thousands of stores we have a real opportunity to do that better than the traditional retailer, if we can get smarter about it.”

David Glueck Jun 19, 2015 ▶ 2:15 David Glueck, Bonobos // Data Science & Engineering at Bonobos (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Bonobos boosted email campaign revenue 4x purely through smarter targeting

“We were able to find, even without changing, ah, the emails that we were sending out, the different product emails that we were sending out, just by being smarter about who we sent each email to, we were able to get sometimes as much as Forex, the revenue for …”

David Glueck Jun 19, 2015 ▶ 8:05 David Glueck, Bonobos // Data Science & Engineering at Bonobos (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Insight

E-commerce purchase decisions are highly elastic, but basket sizes are not

“What we found is that the decision to buy is very elastic. So you can make small changes there, and you can really influence whether people are going to make that purchase or not make that purchase. But what's a lot harder to do is to influence what they're go…”

David Glueck Jun 19, 2015 ▶ 12:34 David Glueck, Bonobos // Data Science & Engineering at Bonobos (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Insight

Email unsubscribe rates are a poor optimization signal because they are rare

“What we found basically is that the unsubscribe rate's not a great signal just because so few people do it.”

David Glueck Jun 19, 2015 ▶ 19:34 David Glueck, Bonobos // Data Science & Engineering at Bonobos (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Insight

Ignoring marketing emails is just as bad as actively unsubscribing

“It's almost, it's just as bad if someone just ignores us as if they unsubscribe from us, and so we have to look at that as being the same thing, basically.”

David Glueck Jun 19, 2015 ▶ 19:48 David Glueck, Bonobos // Data Science & Engineering at Bonobos (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
David Glueck, Bonobos // Data Science & Engineering at Bonobos (Hosted by FirstMark Capita	Jun 19, 2015	16m

David Glueck

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