When you start at Bitly, you go through this emotional cycle, where first you go, 'Oh my God, this data is amazing.' But then you start looking at it, and you conclude that humanity is completely doomed. Because what people… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
It's really fun and challenging to build things that have never been built before. — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
Cool innovation might happen in startups, but they often lack the resources or the deep expertise in the problems they want to address. — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
My job is to analyze our data set to understand it and build products on it. I look at raw data, do the math… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
After graduate school, I joined Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island as an assistant professor, but I continued to program in addition to… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go. — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
The sender and subject line are actually the most important parts of an e-mail because people tend to put more important information in the… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
It's rare that you can solve a technology problem with more technology. — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
When you start at Bitly, you go through this emotional cycle, where first you go, 'Oh my God, this data is amazing.' But then… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
I believe technology should give us superpowers. Everyone should have the opportunity to learn to think, analyze, and create with technology. — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
Companies that rely on licensing a proprietary dataset should expect to be outpaced by competitors using modern data collection techniques and more frequent updates… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
