Dave Hora
Founder, Dave's Research Company
Dave Hora is a 6x first-research-hire, establishing the practice at companies including Instacart, PlanGrid, and ResearchGate. He's a former board member of the ResearchOps community, designing and co-leading the Research Skills Framework project.
In 2020, Dave moved to Portugal and became the founder and perpetual Employee of the Month at Dave's Research Company, consulting with teams throughout the US and Europe on strategic product initiatives.
Dave also writes a newsletter on the process of building good things, is a practicing brown belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and looks forward to spending all of January, 2025 as an unpaid sake brewing intern in Japan.
Rosenverse talks by Dave:
" Working with complexity requires maintaining ambiguity as long as possible before converging on action. "
Research in the Face of Complexity: New Sensibility for New Situations
August 27, 2025
" When participants interact with researchers of different backgrounds, it can deeply affect their responses and the authenticity of data. "
Reimagining research: What does the field need to grow? [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]
October 16, 2024
" Sales and support teams are closer to ground truth than many might realize and are invaluable partners for researchers. "
Advice for Establishing Research
December 8, 2022
" This research skills framework could become a living language of practice that evolves with community contributions. "
A Research Skills Evolution
March 10, 2021
