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:
" Most research methods come from an engineering mindset suitable for complicated problems, but product problems are mostly complex. "
Research in the Face of Complexity: New Sensibility for New Situations
August 27, 2025
" Cultural intelligence could be embedded as a core functionality in product development rather than static culture playbooks. "
Reimagining research: What does the field need to grow? [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]
October 16, 2024
" If research findings aren’t connected to action, then you’re just planning and not actually doing strategy. "
Advice for Establishing Research
December 8, 2022
" Basic coordinating and data management skills are foundational but not where researchers should spend most of their focus. "
A Research Skills Evolution
March 10, 2021
