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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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Realtor.com on using your AI as a junior data scientist with Whitney Perez
Whitney Perez
Realtor.com | Director of Product Management

Realtor.com on using your AI as a junior data scientist

S1 | E40
Sep 9, 2026
Themes
A/B Testing
Culture
Testing AI
Roles
Product
Industries
Marketplace
Featured
true
How Zalando connects every experiment to its North Star with Mi Tian
Mi Tian
Zalando | Head of Applied Science

How Zalando connects every experiment to its North Star

S1 | E39
Sep 10, 2026
Themes
A/B Testing
Scale
Future of Testing
Roles
Data Scientist
Industries
Retail
Featured
false
Learneo on testing the opposite of every hypothesis with Rich Liebling
Rich Liebling
Learneo | Senior Director of Engineering

Learneo on testing the opposite of every hypothesis

S1 | E38
Sep 8, 2026
Themes
A/B Testing
Velocity
Culture
Roles
Engineer
Industries
Consumer Tech
Featured
true
Priya Singhee
Early Warning | VP, Enterprise Analytics & Data Science

The four questions Early Warning asks before any A/B test

S1 | E37
Sep 3, 2026
Themes
A/B Testing
Culture
ROI
Roles
Exec
Industries
Financial Services
Featured
false
Shan Huang
Supercell | Data Scientist

How Supercell A/B tests 300 million players without breaking trust

S1 | E36
Sep 1, 2026
Themes
A/B Testing
Culture
Testing AI
Roles
Data Scientist
Industries
Media & Gaming
Featured
false
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

Top takeaways from our favorite conversations

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

Go to S1 | E3

The biggest thing that gets a team testing is to just do it. Stop designing the perfect experiment and get something simple live to take away the mystery.

Go to S1 | E20

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

Go to S1 | E26

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

Go to S1 | E14

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

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

Democratize experimentation with a centralized platform and self-serve tooling; reset baselines regularly.

Go to S1 | E7

Close every losing test with two questions: did it work for a granular segment, and is the idea worth further investment?

Go to S1 | E17

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

Go to S1 | E9

Documenting experiments in a centralized Wiki creates a growth flywheel: Fanatics' Wiki feeds their roadmap with iterations on already-built features, reducing tech dependency and accelerating velocity.

Go to S1 | E10

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

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

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

Go to S1 | E9

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

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

Shift from MVP to MVT: list leap-of-faith assumptions and design minimum viable tests before you build.

Go to S1 | E6

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

Separate your two experimentation modes: high-volume CRO chases many small wins, while big uncertain bets deserve multiple shots to de-risk.

Go to S1 | E25

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

Friction can increase revenue. Blocking the "view all" grid and forcing a style choice sent shoppers deeper and lifted conversion and revenue, because the extra click added value.

Go to S1 | E16
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