Interesting what he says about funnels. If a lens is so pervasive I must assume it's ticking some boxe/scratching some itch -- but it's not clear to me what that is.
I can see that it has strong predictive power on company revenue, which the board must be very interested in, but is it really stronger than just a time-series? Perhaps it affords a set of knobs that can be twiddled to try to improve the outcome, but how much of that control is illusory? (After all, most startups fail, even -- especially? -- VC-backed ones.)
Outside of that discussion, going a bit more meta, it feels like the experience left a fairly bitter taste in OP's mouth. I continue to believe that corporations and startups, even friendly ones like Honeycomb, are not pleasant places to work at.
I can see that it has strong predictive power on company revenue, which the board must be very interested in, but is it really stronger than just a time-series? Perhaps it affords a set of knobs that can be twiddled to try to improve the outcome, but how much of that control is illusory? (After all, most startups fail, even -- especially? -- VC-backed ones.)
Outside of that discussion, going a bit more meta, it feels like the experience left a fairly bitter taste in OP's mouth. I continue to believe that corporations and startups, even friendly ones like Honeycomb, are not pleasant places to work at.