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Four years ago, I left a comfortable job with a great paycheck to start my own company, Ola Surveys.
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Four years ago, I left a comfortable job with a great paycheck to start my own company, Ola Surveys.

A question about trade-offs

For the last several years, AI discussions have revolved around increasingly familiar questions:

Insight Innovation Ventures recently wrote about the future role of agentic AI in market research and how research processes may eventually become integrated into what they call “decision infrastructure.” I say “decision-bots.”

Another Post That’s Not Really about Tennis

This month, I collaborated with Blix to outline important considerations related to conversational surveys and “qual at scale.” Read the full article on Blix’s blog site here: https://blix.ai/blog/conversational-surveys

I wrote a guest post this week for Checkbox’s blog.

Good-Enough Research Needs a New Reality Check

Perhaps I should have called this “The Perfectionist’s Guide to Raising Funds.” Anyway, I have reached the exciting time in the development of my company, Ola Surveys, where I’ve bootstrapped as much as I can bootstrap, and it’s time to look outside for the means to drive the next stage of growth.

This is a follow-up on a few LinkedIn posts from earlier in the week.