Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. Once you reach scale, fraud becomes a real issue. Question: What’s the simplest way you can test a referrals offering?

Retention 48

Retention User Experience Travel Marketing 48

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Depending on the engineering background of these data scientists, these work products are either deployed directly to the production system, or if they are prototypes they are handed off to software engineers to help implement, optimize and scale them. The elusive full stack data scientists do exist, though they are hard to find. Who to hire.

Engineering 15

Engineering Workflows User Experience Software 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

APIs are a technology that allows firms to interact and share information with other firms at an unprecedented scale. Provides a low-cost, real-time network to test ideas. A/B testing allows for rapid comparison of alternative features and functions. Crowdfunding sites are another avenue to test product ideas.

A/B Testing 13

A/B Testing Travel Engineering Human Resources 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

On average, roughly four times as many winners – defined in this case as those companies that grew absolute revenue at a significant rate and gained market share within their industry over the previous two years – as losers have digital tools embedded into their core commercial capabilities. And successes can be scaled up quickly.

Sales 14

Sales Sales B2B Accounts 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

The speed and scale on which this is occurring helps us recognize that we are not in a cyclical downturn as corporations attempt to compensate for the disruptive impact of digital technology. Simply stated, it’s harder to make money by working or creating value when the scales tip too far in favor of investors and shareholders.

Assets 8

Assets Balance Sheet Operations A/B Testing 8

Andrew Chen

AUGUST 10, 2023

Yes, of course, it’s when a top line number (like revenue, or active users, or otherwise) stops growing. There’s equivalent numbers for net revenue retention, session lengths, and lots of other metrics too. Finding and scaling marketing channels is typically pretty easy. But what’s happening under the covers?

Retention 80

Retention Metrics Scaling Marketing 80

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He and his colleagues spend their productive hours scaling large distributed file systems. In this article, I will share the current architecture and some of the lessons we learned scaling it along with some of the things we are looking to improve upon in the near future. What is your revenue model? Introduction.

Scaling 21

Scaling Engineering A/B Testing Manager 21