Dan Hock's Essays
Dan Hockenmaier, Jess LachsThe strategy and tactics of growing startups and growing your career. Less frequent, more rigorous essays.
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Should you quit your job?
How to navigate one of the hardest career decisions anyone can make
I’d bet that right now, more people are considering whether to change jobs than ever before.
How to future-proof a career in data science
AI transformed software engineering faster than any other field because it is a particularly good fit for LLMs. The context lives in one place, there’s a massive amount of public code to train on, and the output is verifiable.
Data science...
How scared should Amazon be of agents?
Amazon has blocked everyone’s agents, and it has many people thinking that now might be a good time to try to compete with them.
Agents like Muse, Grok Bot, and Instinct can browse the internet and do anything on your behalf, including buy...
Momentum is Not a Moat
A startup begins in the Wilderness. There is a founding team, a vision, and maybe an early product. Degrees of freedom on where and how to compete are high. It’s still possible to make major changes or pivot entirely.
But then it starts to...
How to Build a High-Growth Operating System: 9 Lessons from 9 Years at Faire
Nine years ago, I watched two of Faire’s founders, Max and Daniele, sketch out their vision for a wholesale marketplace on a whiteboard. Faire was less than a year old with a team of under 10 people. Somehow, they had remarkable clarity abo...
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Strategy, growth, and marketplaces. Always trying to separate signal from noise.
Jessica Lachs is the Chief Analytics Officer at DoorDash, where she leads the global analytics and data science organization across DoorDash, Wolt, & Deliveroo, helping teams make better decisions, faster.
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