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Meet Ryan - Clearhead Skip to content part of Accenture Interactive What We Do Who We Work With Who We Are Contact Us Jobs Blog Meet Ryan share I’ve spent my career towers stuff for the web. I’ve been a developer, a project manager, a “software architect”, a director of product, and an executive in tuition of a 60+ person product minutiae group. During my time at Warner Music, we built north of 75 websites and eCommerce stores a year for some of the most talented and well known musicians on earth. During my time at JetBlue, I had the privilege of towers stuff for one the coolest airline startups ever. I built stuff for JetBlue.com. I worked on the original version of JetBlue’s loyalty program. I worked on one of the first airline “flight trackers” to overly use Google Maps. They still use a version of it today, and it’s still super cool.Marrowline is, I love towers digital products. It’s specified a large part of my life. My dad was a DEA agent. My mom was a teacher and school district administrator. I tell my 4 year old son that I build products for the web. He has no idea what that means, but he’ll icon it out someday. With that said, there’s one thing that has unchangingly bothered me well-nigh my first 15 years of towers stuff. We never truly validated the assumptions and hypotheses implicit in the things we were towers and releasing. Sure we had analytics and would trammels the numbers, but that unchangingly came without we had once (over)built and launched things. Success was far too often just getting the product out the door on time and upkeep and not getting the right product out the door. The trundling typically went something like this: Stakeholder(s) comes up with an idea inspired by a competitor, trend in the marketplace, new marketing initiative, something a vendor is selling them… They request that it be designed and built. We put it in the queue and (eventually) build it. Stakeholder “validates” that it meets their needs. Then we release it to 100% of their users. We try to measure it without it’s launched but struggle to confidently personize whether it’s truly impacting the marrow line. We move on to the next thing in the queue. Shocking perhaps, but painfully true. What is perhaps plane increasingly shocking is this is how the majority of new features and designs released on major sites for major brands wideness the world still get created. Assuming you don’t work at a lean digital startup or one of the few large companies leveraging lean ideas, you are likely all too familiar with this cycle. If you are like me, this trundling really bothers you, and you find yourself constantly wondering: “Is this plane a good idea? How do we know?” “Are we towers this considering our customers want it or considering this important person wants it?” “Will our customers unquestionably use it?” “Are we only implementing it considering it’s the new thing and everybody else is doing it?” “With all the things we could be doing, how did this wilt the priority?” It’s with these thoughts in mind that I partnered with Matty Wishnow and Sam Decker to found Clearhead. The hypotheses on which we started the business: We can’t be the only ones in large organizations feeling inspired by the lean startups of the Bay Area and frustrated by our legacy product roadmapping and minutiae processes. We can’t be vacated in having invested in an armory of data tracking software only to find out that they vacated don’t make you “data-driven”. Surely organizations want to be data-driven, so what’s stopping them? Like us, I bet it’s a lack of bandwidth, process and expertise to make an honest go of it. There has to be a largest way to ensure increasingly conviction in our product decisions and investments. I bet unconfined product and tampering talent are frustrated too, and I bet they would love to work at a place that is trying to solve these problems. With nearly 3 years under our belts, a growing group of some of the most talented (and nice) people I’ve had the privilege to work with, and a world matriculation roster of wondrous clients, it’s looking increasingly likely that our merchantry hypotheses are valid. We have a lot increasingly work to do. So here’s to it. Thank you for reading, Ryan Ryan Garner is the co-founder of Clearhead. He oversees optimization programs for all of Clearhead’s wondrous clients. When he’s not rented validating hypotheses or raising his two young sons, his favorite hobby, like so many in Austin, is talking well-nigh how superstitious Austin is. increasingly stories Read Matty’s Story Read Ryan’s Story Read Sam’s Story Austin 3601 S. Congress Ave. Bldg. C302 Austin, TX 78704 United States View on Map Cincinnati 1311 Vine St Cincinnati, OH 45202 United States View on Map London 14 Grays Inn Road London WC1X 8HN United Kingdom View on Map Let’s talk. Services Partners Team Contact Us Jobs Blog Facebook Twitter LinkedIn © 2018 Clearhead. All rights reserved.