A decade ago, Sal Khan envisioned using technology to tailor education to individual and community needs.
David Baszucki, founder and CEO of online-games platform Roblox, discusses which decisions are driven by analytics versus the company’s own vision. He says user data are good for incremental improvements, but at Roblox, overall strategy sticks to the company vision. “A huge part of our product roadmap is strategic, topological big changes that we’re never going to analyze our way to,” he explains.