Alex Mayasi

I'm in San Francisco.

What's going on?

Check the index.

She's in there a lot.

Yeah.

I think your career demonstrates something that I've found quite interesting, which is

I think my standard image of an economist was I was kind of a professor and they do research.

But when you went to work at Amazon, was your job title behavioral economist?

Why did Amazon need a behavioral economist?

Yeah.

And so I think...

Yeah, I've learned over time how economists are not just professors.

Many highly trained economists are out there working on very familiar goods and services that we all know.

One of my favorite examples is dating apps.

To a surprising degree, the algorithms in dating apps that decide who gets matched with who, who sees which profiles, are based on Nobel Prize winning economics research.

I'm curious if you have kind of a favorite example or two of ways that economists have been very influential, you know, not in academia, but by working at, you know, companies.

I think this event will push it back.

Yeah.

I mean, and so I think we're talking specifically with Rideshare about like surge pricing.

Let's finish with the topic of housing, something, a part of the economy that so viscerally impacts our lives.