137: Data Collection Secrets & The Search Data Problem with Josh Wills

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Josh’s background in data working at Google, Slack, and other companies (1:21)
• The need and process for high quality data (4:33)
• Digging into auction code (14:03)
• Joining Slack and working in the early days of the company (18:00)
• Not fighting the last war in data (25:42)
• Building a product, while using the product (30:35)
• Transitioning to the search team at Slack (36:50)
• Usage patterns of search (41:21)
• Josh’s work in helping build DuckDB (46:20)
• Having the right toolset to increase precision and efficiency (52:42)
• Final thoughts and takeaways (56:03)

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