Category: Data
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The New Frontiers of Efficiency at Scale: Obama’s New Organizers and Data Scientists
The election of President Obama in 2008 was by no means always the expected outcome. As analysts look back and analyze what gave him the edge over strong candidates such as Hillary Clinton in the primaries and then John McCain, many point to the Obama’s team of “New Organizers”. Four years later, the re-election of Obama…
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Silicon Valley’s Best Kept Secret? Customer Acquisition Strategies
In an event yesterday at Harvard with Harvard alum Paul Graham, I asked him a question: “Paul, what are some of the interesting, successful customer acquisition strategies that you have seen being used by your startups, or startups generally?” His response: Can I not answer that question? This leads me to a thing I have…
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Privacy, the Filter Bubble and Social Networking: Some Difficult Tradeoffs
Presumably, everyone values their privacy. The way the internet and the online is evolving, suggests otherwise. Never before in history has so much information about individuals been available so easily on a platform. People willingly share information online with their friends, acquaintances, and very often, even strangers. So does that mean, people have suddenly stopped…
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Adam D’Angelo of Quora: The Chicken and Egg Problem, Scaling Quality and Startup Culture
Met Adam D’Angelo, Founder and CEO of Quora today. Some interesting facts about Quora and some of highlights: Founded in 2009, Quora currently has about 65 employees, with 34 of them being engineers, and 7 (!) data scientists. The mission is to share and grow the world’s knowledge. While that might sound like Google, their take…
Anirudh Suri 