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Inside Chess.com's Plan to Run 1,000 Experiments in a Single Year
Summary
Chess.com ran its first A/B test in 2023. Two years later, the team is on track to run 1,000 experiments in a single year—and they've already shipped 195 in Q1.
In this episode, Ashley Stirrup sits down with Nafis Shaikh, Director of Product Management at Chess.com, to get inside the experimentation engine powering one of the world's most beloved gaming products.
Nafis brings experience from Zynga and Prodigy and a refreshingly honest take on what changes when a product built on passion suddenly has to serve a 10-million-DAU user base that spans absolute beginners to rated FIDE…
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