Ramesh Johari (@rameshjohari) is a professor at Stanford University focusing on the design and operation of online marketplaces. Ramesh has advised companies like @Airbnb, @Uber, @Bumble, and @Stitchfix on how to scale and improve their marketplaces.
In our conversation, we discuss:
→ What you need to get right to build a successful online marketplace
→ Tips for optimizing your marketplace
→ An easy litmus test to see if there’s an opportunity to build a marketplace in a space
→ The role of data science in successful marketplaces
→ Ramesh’s philosophy on experimentation and AI
→ Implementing rating systems
→ Much more
We're supporting new work to close racial & wealth gaps in neonatal care, diabetes, & chronic disease. Read from @alyceadamsPhD on health equity & community engagement; @rameshjohari on telehealth for diabetes; @henryleeneo on racial equity in CA NICUs: https://t.co/PfhhyvzAdv
Honorable mention for the @AcmSIGecom Dissertation Award for 2020 goes to Nikhil Garg @NikhGarg for his thesis "Designing Marketplaces and Civic Engagement Platforms" advised by @rameshjohari and @ashishgoel at @Stanford. Congratulations!
More details: https://t.co/n10Shpdn9C
I'm giving at talk "at" MIT this Thurs 2/4 noon ET, open to all. Will focus on recent work with Hao Yin on randomizing graph cluster randomization (huh? come to the talk!). The talk aims to be instructive to both to a broad and expert audience. https://t.co/LQoZWeAIYt
Gave a guest lecture today in Tommaso Bondi's class at Cornell Tech on political digital analytics and the work we did this cycle @PredictWise. I couldn't resist moralizing a bit at the end, on actually working toward causes you care about.
Congrats to @NikhGarg who is a finalist for the INFORMS M&SOM Student Paper Prize for our work on ratings in online platforms https://t.co/YMGzlIVeR1 , and for the Dantzig Dissertation Award for his thesis!
Excited to share a new blog post on large scale experimentation; how should we think about opportunity costs when there are many potential experiments to run.
Also, hope you enjoy the awesome animation built by @brianedcoffey👌
The original coronavirus-testing crisis was defined by bureaucratic red tape and a blundering White House. But now a new crisis is upon us, and this time private labs are the problem, @alexismadrigal and @yayitsrob report: https://t.co/lX0sQXYeS7
Restarting our economy will require one thing above all else – testing. Testing to show who's currently infected. Testing to show who's had the virus and is immune. Social distancing won't end because it's Easter. It'll end when we have sufficient testing. Here’s how we do it.
@GavinNewsom@CAPublicHealth Very impressed with the level of detail in COVID-19 data being provided by Florida Dept. of Health. Wish CA (and other states) would do the same...
Our favorite #COVID19 state website of the day: #Florida Dept. of Health. Consistent, traceable, and treats each patient individually with respect. Kudos to @HealthyFla!