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Published · transcript-backedLenny Rachitsky: uncertainty
14 Jul 2024 Lenny's Podcast Building a world-class data org | Jessica Lachs (VP of Analytics and Data Science at DoorDash)
“I don't know if you know Riley Newman well, but he built Airbnb's first data team and it was actually an analytics team.”
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- Lenny Rachitsky
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- uncertainty
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- 14 Jul 2024
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…learning, of sharing. You have someone you can go to talk about your challenges. You have someone who can peer review your work. I think just having that team culture that we have is really important. And it's a lot harder to get when you have the individual silos, particularly in an earlier stage when it's a smaller team, you just don't have as many people around. Everybody wants to have friends at work and we're creating an environment where they can find like-minded data nerds. It makes me think about Airbnb's first data team. I don't know if you know Riley Newman well, but he built Airbnb's first data team and it was actually an analytics team. They called themselves the 'A-Team' on the point of culture, and that always felt a lot of fun and they loved being part of that team. Yeah. We have the same, but now I feel a lot less special for coming up with that name.…
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