Hilbert

Space

In this episode, we sit down with Alex Schultz, Chief Data Officer at Meta (and the person widely credited as the founder of the modern growth practice) to unpack what growth actually is, why most teams get measurement wrong, and how AI is rewriting the implementation of growth's timeless principles. Alex breaks down why growth has never really changed: it's about growing the active users of your product, full stop. We cover that the biggest failures don't come from picking the wrong metric, but from unexamined biases, accidental p-hacking, and top-down pressure to ship what the data says you shouldn't. The perfect metric matters far less than doing the analysis right.

In this episode, we sit down with Bryan Kim, Partner at a16z, to dig into what growth actually costs when it goes wrong, and what it takes to build the infrastructure to get it right. Bryan spent over five years at a16z backing some of the most ambitious consumer businesses of this era, including ElevenLabs, Function Health, Mirage, Partiful. Before that, he built and ran growth at Snap (from 100 people and zero revenue to 4,000 people and $2B in revenue) and developed firsthand what it means to think about growth as a systems problem, not a metrics problem.

In this inaugural episode of Hilbert Space, we sit down with Daniel Danker, EVP of AI Acceleration, Product and Design at Walmart, to unpack why sustainable growth is more complex than it looks, and how AI is finally giving retailers the tools to get it right.