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The Experimentation Edge

Real operators share what they shipped, what they learned, and how experimentation shaped their strategy.

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Ben Schein
Clover | Director of Product Management

How Clover experiments when billions of dollars flow through daily

S1 | E35
Aug 27, 2026
Themes
A/B Testing
Scale
Culture
Roles
Product
Industries
Retail
Featured
false
Edd Saunders
JobLeads | Product Experimentation Manager

Why JobLeads says one test won't move you, but 100 will

S1 | E34
Aug 26, 2026
Themes
A/B Testing
Culture
Velocity
Roles
Product
Industries
Consumer Tech
Featured
false
Arie Polycarpou
TAG - The Aspen Group | Senior Manager, Test & Learn

Inside Aspen Dental's 100-test-a-year experimentation program

S1 | E33
Aug 19, 2026
Themes
A/B Testing
Scale
Culture
Roles
Product
Industries
Consumer Services
Featured
true
Erika Dunn
Principal Financial Group | Assistant Director of Data Science

Synthetic audiences meet real A/B tests at Principal Financial Group

S1 | E32
Aug 18, 2026
Themes
A/B Testing
Testing AI
Culture
Roles
Data Scientist
Industries
Financial Services
Featured
false
Why US Bank considers missing even 1% of customers unacceptable with Vijay Lal
Vijay Lal
US Bank | Lead Product Manager, Experimentation

Why US Bank considers missing even 1% of customers unacceptable

S1 | E31
Aug 11, 2026
Themes
A/B Testing
Culture
Scale
Roles
Product
Industries
Financial Services
Featured
false
Why Farfetch manages by learning rate, not win rate with Luis Trindade
Luis Trindade
Farfetch | Principal Product Manager, Experimentation

Why Farfetch manages by learning rate, not win rate

S1 | E30
Aug 5, 2026
Themes
A/B Testing
Feature Flags
Culture
Roles
Product
Industries
Marketplace
Featured
false
How Cogniteer Built an Experimentation Engine From Scratch with Fabian Hans
Fabian Hans
Cogniteer | Founder

How Cogniteer Built an Experimentation Engine From Scratch

S1 | E29
Jul 23, 2026
Themes
A/B Testing
Culture
Growth
Roles
Exec
Industries
Business Tech
Featured
false
How Fin does 1,000,000 A/B Tests in 24 Hours with Pedro Tabacof
Pedro Tabacof
Fin | Principal Machine Learning Scientist

How Fin does 1,000,000 A/B Tests in 24 Hours

S1 | E28
Jul 21, 2026
Themes
A/B Testing
Testing AI
Velocity
Roles
Data Scientist
Industries
Business Tech
Featured
true
James Falzone
Kargo | Director of Product Management

How Kargo turns losing experiments into competitive edges

S1 | E27
Jul 14, 2026
Themes
A/B Testing
Culture
Scale
Roles
Product
Industries
Business Tech
Featured
false
Danielle Olean
Box | Director of eCommerce

The 'wine effect' and other surprises that reshaped how Box runs e-commerce experiments

S1 | E26
Jul 9, 2026
Themes
A/B Testing
Culture
Growth
Roles
Product
Industries
Business Tech
Featured
true
Daniel Layfield
Diligent | Director of Product Management

Diligent explains why moving on from an experiment might cost you

S1 | E25
Jul 7, 2026
Themes
A/B Testing
Culture
Testing AI
Roles
Product
Industries
Business Tech
Featured
false
Nick Beyler
Stitch Fix | Experimentation Team Manager

The metric Stitch Fix says every experimenter should chase

S1 | E24
Jul 2, 2026
Themes
A/B Testing
Growth
Future of Testing
Roles
Data Scientist
Industries
Retail
Featured
true
Amir Moghaddam
Expedia Group | Director of Software Engineering

What the Expedia Group cannot measure, it cannot ship

S1 | E23
Jul 1, 2026
Themes
A/B Testing
Velocity
Testing AI
Roles
Engineer
Industries
Marketplace
Featured
false
Raunak Kumar
Fin | Senior Manager, GTM Analytics

How Fin went from weeks to hours of analysis using AI

S1 | E22
Jun 30, 2026
Themes
AI-Native Dev
A/B Testing
Velocity
Roles
Data Scientist
Industries
Business Tech
Featured
false
Kim Ting Li
The Home Depot | Senior Manager of Experimentation

Inside The Home Depot's experimentation at a $25B scale

S1 | E21
Jun 29, 2026
Themes
A/B Testing
Scale
Culture
Roles
Data Scientist
Industries
Retail
Featured
true

Top takeaways from our favorite conversations

Purge “anti-knowledge” by standardizing design, instituting cross-functional reviews, and only codifying learnings supported by repeatable data.

Go to S1 | E1

DoorDash's price experiment proved price by itself doesn't predict orders. Different customers want different things at different times, which pushed the team toward personalization.

Go to S1 | E23

Unblock teams: create a center of excellence for data science and enable rapid variants with AI-powered tooling.

Go to S1 | E6

A failed test can hold the real winner; contextual onboarding matched to user intent roughly doubled activation and became the default variant after the bundling experiment was rolled back.

Go to S1 | E22

Top-down buy-in shifts the conversation from "why test?" to "how do we test?": When leadership treats data as the tiebreaker, teams stop defending opinions and start building better experiments.

Go to S1 | E10

Twitch used geo-fenced experiments with matched markets and causal inference to measure true price elasticity, turning a feared pricing decision into a measured, accretive one.

Go to S1 | E18

Reposition features around how users actually feel, not how you assume they should feel

Go to S1 | E9

Win rate matters less than learnings per test — DoorDash ships company-wide experiment summaries (win or lose) that the CEO actively reads and responds to, creating cultural accountability around testing rigor.

Go to S1 | E12

Simplification has a limit. Removing too much can strip away the cues and context buyers actually need to decide.

Go to S1 | E26

Massey's first test removed navigation from UPS's shipping checkout flow and delivered $35 million in incremental revenue—proving e-commerce best practices apply even when customers think "this is just a tool, not e-commerce."

Go to S1 | E11

Persistence pays: four months and three to four rounds of trial-model testing at Codecademy produced a 35% conversion increase.

Go to S1 | E25

When you struggle to land a result, lead with the story of what the customer did, then bring the numbers.

Go to S1 | E14

False negatives are more dangerous than false positives — they get institutionalized as "we tried that, it didn't work" and quietly kill good ideas for years.

Go to S1 | E18

Test metrics before you test features — usage time could signal engagement or just mean your product takes too long to do its job.

Go to S1 | E13

Scale experimentation with AI: use Cursor desktop/cloud agents for parallel builds and visual QA; orchestrate docs/analysis via Claude; automate cleanups and reporting.

Go to S1 | E7

A feature that fails early in a flow can succeed later; placement and timing often matter more than the idea itself.

Go to S1 | E14

Build composite metrics (e.g., CPQI) to align finance, engineering, and data science around shared outcomes.

Go to S1 | E3

Accept that being wrong is the point—experimentation only works when leadership embraces humility

Go to S1 | E9

Share losses as openly as wins. Wins build credibility, and losses build the psychological safety a testing culture runs on.

Go to S1 | E26

Build the triad: pair an easy-to-use platform with training, top-down sponsorship, and clear launch processes.

Go to S1 | E6

One centralized team of about 40 people tests every major change to Home Depot's $25B online business, serving 40–50 business teams with consistent hypothesis and analysis standards.

Go to S1 | E21
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