Customer Stories  / Product Jun 7 2016

Statsbot, robotmia, & Slack: The trifecta of workplace productivity

Statsbot, the bot company that made a Slack bot for robotmia, cuts down on the ad hoc queries and helps people be more productive. But Statsbot isn’t just making robotmia users’ lives easier – it’s also a leading example of how bots-for-businesses will become as common as wearing hoodies to work.

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Why Pinterest empowers its growth engineering team

Growth Jun 2 2016

Why Pinterest empowers its growth engineering team

Engineers are too often perceived as implementers, instead of strategists. Smart people who can solve a problem with someone else’s solution.

How Silicon Valley uses data science to help legal weed grow

Customer Stories  / Data May 26 2016

How Silicon Valley uses data science to help legal weed grow

In the world of marijuana tech, everyone is a startup. In an industry where there are no benchmarks, and no incumbents, a new crop of Silicon Valley founders are bringing data science to legal weed.

Why data science at Change.org is not always a numbers' game

Customer Stories  / Growth May 25 2016

Why data science at Change.org is not always a numbers' game

At Change.org, cultural understanding and language are key drivers in how data science helps discover, serve, and grow its community.


Magic numbers are an illusion

Growth May 24 2016

Magic numbers are an illusion

Everyone wants to find a number like Facebook's “seven friends in 10 days.” But if you go digging into your data looking for magic, you probably aren’t going to see it. That’s because magic numbers are an illusion. And that’s okay.

The Kimpact: Celebrity apps are changing mobile games

Product May 19 2016

The Kimpact: Celebrity apps are changing mobile games

Today, celebrity apps aren’t just changing how developers build apps. Celebrity apps have upended the gaming market, and that market is (finally) women. Powered by largely female brands that don’t have an ounce of virtual blood or dragons, celebrity apps are now some of the biggest sources of revenue in the male-centric gaming market.


How to get into Y Combinator (It's not how smart you are)

Data May 18 2016

How to get into Y Combinator (It's not how smart you are)

“The application questions have barely changed in in 11 years,” Jared said. But given what Jared’s slides said about eight of those 11 years, change has been the only constant. Somehow, YC has found a method for picking winners, in spite of discontinuity.

Max Levchin on the Quantified Self and “Value for Privacy”

Innovators May 17 2016

Max Levchin on the Quantified Self and “Value for Privacy”

Max Levchin is fascinated by the quantified self and the potential of personal data. But does the value of that data come at a cost to privacy?

In Data We Trust: Max Levchin Blows Up Consumer Finance

Innovators May 11 2016

In Data We Trust: Max Levchin Blows Up Consumer Finance

“So I had this fascinating dinner with one of the CEOs of one of the top three banks in the U.S.,” Max Levchin says, sitting forward in his chair a bit. As the former CTO of PayPal, a sought-after investor, . . .

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