Alex Svanevik
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And so I think the magic is to like combine the two.
So obviously the way I run the company, Nansen, is quite data informed, but there's also a lot of use of intuition as well and taste and judgment.
When you think about building great products, for example, I think take two companies, Google, Apple.
Who do you think makes the greatest products of the two?
Okay, interesting.
I think it's Apple.
But Google products are also very good.
But Google products are much more, I think, data-oriented in their product development.
Lots of A-B testing.
Let's change this a little bit.
And if the results are statistically significant, we'll switch the button from green to blue or something like that.
Whereas Apple is much more demo-driven.
At least when Jobs was leading Apple.
very demo-driven, very dog-fooding-oriented, although I don't think they like the term dog-fooding at Apple, but basically using your own products and essentially trying to use great taste and judgment in how you design products.
And so in a way, I think the older I've gotten, the more I'm leaning into taste, judgment,
and intuition for product development.
But I think when it comes to trading, to kind of take it back to crypto and investing, it is generally probably a good idea to use data and to look at the numbers and not only rely on your own intuition for most people.
I think tens of billions of transactions like our platform.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, there's a lot.