Daniel SaidiI did my best to protest pure data driven development when I was at eBay Sweden 10+ years ago. But it was impossible to debate against the mellow San Diego guy who in his mild way explained that "well, that's just how we do it in the valley". The rest is data harvesting history.
Drew Pickard@danielsaidi
Internal at MS (as a designer) I had a long meeting with a Bing PM who went into incredible amounts of detail about min-maxing every single pixel in A/B/C/D/E tests to eke out tiny fractional percentage improvements over time to earn a cumulative $3MM
and then I asked him why the image of the Bing logo was pixelated and he said “oh I did that accidentally when I merged on vacation and haven't had time to fix it in the last couple of weeks”