Don't blame PhD students for lacking product metrics — industry has the money to build them
catalinacangea · x · 2026-10-16
Kenneth Marino argues that industry labs have the money to run user testing and build product-specific metrics for their use cases — and do in fact do so — so people shouldn't blame PhD students earning a fraction of their salary for the gap.
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