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Susan Athey: Tech Economists, Machine Learning, and Causation

World of DaaS with Auren Hoffman
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Susan Athey, The Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford's Graduate Business School, talks with World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. Susan serves as the Founding Director at Stanford's Golub Capital Social Impact Lab, using technology and social science to improve the effectiveness of social sector organizations, and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Athey was the first Chief Economist at Microsoft. She's also on the Board of Directors of Expedia, Lending Club, Ripple, Rover, Turo, and more. Susan and Auren dive into the role of tech economists, machine learning, and causal inference. World of DaaS is brought to you by SafeGraph. For more episodes, visit safegraph.com/podcasts You can find Auren Hoffman (CEO of SafeGraph) on Twitter at @auren Top podcast episodes:    • Will Marshall (CEO of Planet): Building a ...      • Jack Dangermond: Building Esri      • World of DaaS - Writing History With Data       …...more
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Intro

0:00

Local Maximums

1:10

AB Testing Platforms

2:40

Tradeoff

5:43

Selflearning

7:25

Other tactics

9:24

Microservices

12:43

Time horizon

14:41

How do we go back in time

17:07

The Facebook experiment

19:40

Picking the right measure

21:03

Adding qualitative measurements

21:27

Managing a sales team

23:13

Making better decisions

25:43

Using AI to make better decisions

27:41

Correlation vs causation

30:08

Natural experiments

35:11

Tech Economists

37:49

One day a week

41:19

Gold Capital Social Impact Lab

44:17

Susans hacks

46:35

Using money for leverage

48:15

Advice for younger Susan

51:31
Susan Athey: Tech Economists, Machine Learning, and Causation
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2021Jul 29
Susan Athey, The Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford's Graduate Business School, talks with World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. Susan serves as the Founding Director at Stanford's Golub Capital Social Impact Lab, using technology and social science to improve the effectiveness of social sector organizations, and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Athey was the first Chief Economist at Microsoft. She's also on the Board of Directors of Expedia, Lending Club, Ripple, Rover, Turo, and more. Susan and Auren dive into the role of tech economists, machine learning, and causal inference. World of DaaS is brought to you by SafeGraph. For more episodes, visit safegraph.com/podcasts You can find Auren Hoffman (CEO of SafeGraph) on Twitter at @auren Top podcast episodes:    • Will Marshall (CEO of Planet): Building a ...      • Jack Dangermond: Building Esri      • World of DaaS - Writing History With Data      • From Hype to Reality: Gary Marcus Unravels...      • Niall Ferguson: Writing History with Data      • Video      • Tyler Cowen: Identifying Talent and Measur...      • Henry Schuck (CEO of ZoomInfo): Building A...   Recent podcast episodes:    • Elad Gil - AI, Angel Investing, Living For...      • Navigating the Future of Crypto and Web3 w...      • Will Manidis - AI, LLMs & Healthcare Data      • Jack Abraham of Atomic: Incubators & Start...      • Anthony Scaramucci - The Future of Institu...      • Defending Against Cyber Threats: Tom Tugen...      • David Sacks - SaaS Metrics, Tech Cycles & ...      • AI Revolution in 2020s: Insights from Ange...  
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World of DaaS with Auren Hoffman

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