Opening
Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:00): So you've built one of the largest and most respected data teams in all of tech. Jessica Lachs (00:00:05): For me, analytics is a business impact driving function and not purely a service function, not just answering the why, but answering the, "What do we do now that we know this?" Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:15): One of your colleagues told me that you are incredibly good at defining metrics. Jessica Lachs (00:00:19): Retention is a terrible thing to goal on....
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Accept praise cleanly
Jessica Lachs (00:01:55): Thank you so much for having me. I'm very excited to be here. Lenny Rachitsky (00:01:58): So you've built one of the...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
Low-ego framing
Lenny Rachitsky (00:14:33): It makes me think about Airbnb's first data team. I don't know if you know Riley Newman well, but he built Airbnb's first data team and it was actually an analytics team. They...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Accept praise cleanly
Jessica Lachs (01:19:27): Thank you for having me. It was a lot of fun. Lenny...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
Ending
said, be nice. I want honest feedback, but I want kindness as well. So yeah, just engage with the content and let me know what y'all think. I think I do have a broader ask, which is just to encourage folks listening to TruthSeek, something I take seriously at DoorDash. It's a company value. But there's a lot of misinformation out there and it's often up to us as individuals to figure out what's fact and what's fiction....
The ending makes gratitude concrete, which turns warmth into checkable behavior.