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Alex Svanevik

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392 total appearances

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Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

And so I think the magic is to like combine the two.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

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.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

When you think about building great products, for example, I think take two companies, Google, Apple.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

Who do you think makes the greatest products of the two?

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

Okay, interesting.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

I think it's Apple.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

But Google products are also very good.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

But Google products are much more, I think, data-oriented in their product development.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

Lots of A-B testing.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

Let's change this a little bit.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

And if the results are statistically significant, we'll switch the button from green to blue or something like that.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

Whereas Apple is much more demo-driven.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

At least when Jobs was leading Apple.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

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.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

And so in a way, I think the older I've gotten, the more I'm leaning into taste, judgment,

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

and intuition for product development.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

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.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

I think tens of billions of transactions like our platform.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

Yeah.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

Oh, yeah, there's a lot.