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:

"Every research question is usually a part of a larger project."
Reimagining research: What does the field need to grow? [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]
October 16, 2024

"You can pull pieces and parts from off-the-shelf models as you need, but only where it makes sense."
Advice for Establishing Research
December 8, 2022

"Workshops allow us to create a common core of the most important practices for our team."
A Research Skills Evolution
March 10, 2021