tl;dr:“Data may give you a conclusive answer that changing the color of a button from yellow to green increases the conversion rate by 0.15ppts but will tell you nothing about the other ideas that would have had ten times more impact.” Mikkel believes that the best ideas are often complex and require persistence, and that intuition is heavily underrated.
tl;dr:"My take on what’s the most common root cause for the strain on data managers, is that it’s most often with stakeholders. They are not deliberately being difficult (I hope) and often have good intentions to push for their own business goals. But many stakeholders don’t know how to work with data people. In high-growth companies you often have stakeholders coming from all kinds of backgrounds." Mikkel elaborates in this post.
tl;dr:"The median data to engineers ratio for the US companies I looked at is 1:7 compared to 1:4 for European companies. And the design to engineers ratio is 1:9 for both groups. This post gives some answers to why this is but also leaves some questions unanswered."