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Episode 15: Why Good Metrics Still Lead to Bad Decisions — and How to Fix It
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Eoin O'Mahony—data science partner at Lightspeed, former Uber science lead, and co-designer of the system that kept NYC’s Citi Bikes available across the city—argues that positive metrics are meaningless if you don’t understand the mechanism behind them. At Uber, he often blocked launches that looked good on paper but didn’t make sense in practice. Now in venture, he’s applying that same rigor to unstructured data—using GenAI to scale a kind of work that’s long resisted systematization.
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Manage episode 478750354 series 3615441
Eoin O'Mahony—data science partner at Lightspeed, former Uber science lead, and co-designer of the system that kept NYC’s Citi Bikes available across the city—argues that positive metrics are meaningless if you don’t understand the mechanism behind them. At Uber, he often blocked launches that looked good on paper but didn’t make sense in practice. Now in venture, he’s applying that same rigor to unstructured data—using GenAI to scale a kind of work that’s long resisted systematization.
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