Jay Wacker, Quora's Ontology Architect, is in town to share lessons learned from 4 years building products at Quora.

Abstract

Exponential Growth -- constructing a scalable business model



Letting Goals Spoil the Product -- how being too laser focused on a bottom-line metric leads to failure

Overcoming Data Blindness -- focusing on what is easy to measure can leave you blind to what is really going on

Beyond working at Quora, Jay is a huge contributor in both questions and answers on Quora. He is a 6x Top Writer and 3x Top Question Writer with over 4,000 answers and 3,900 questions on the site.

Prior to Quora, Jay was a professor of Physics at Stanford University. His field of research is in theoretical particle physics and his research is focused on Large Hadron Collider and Dark Matter.

Agenda

6:30-7:15pm - Doors open

7:15-8:00pm - Learnings from 4 years at Quora w/ QA - Jay Wacker

8:00-9:00pm - Mixer

Light snacks and drinks provided.

How to get to BloomReach

BloomReach is just north of downtown in Victory Park, south of AAC.

We're on the 3rd floor of the four story red brick "Dick's Last Resort" building, next to House of Blues.

The only entrance to the building is through the small parking lot accessible on Lamar St, between Hooter's and Dick's Last Resort.

Once in the parking lot, find the red awning. Beneath the awning is the entrance.

Take the elevator to the thrid story and you'll find us.

Plenty of public transit options via Dart.

How to Park

For parking, you have two main options.

Victory Lot K: 2223 Victory Ave, Dallas, TX 75219. First 2 hours are free and after that it's a cheap option.

Broom Street Lot: 2100 N Lamar St, Dallas, TX 75202. This one is closest to office directly across from House of Blues and Hooters and it is partially underneath Woodall Rogers (Spur 366), but it can get full if HOB has a concert. Couple bucks.





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