Dafna Friedman

Everything I thought I knew about management, Topaz Gilad added a question mark next to it this week, with endless charisma. It happened in the DataNights (by Datahack) course for AI & DS managers we're hosting at Trigo. Her talk, "MVP Mindset for AI Leads", could have been a blueprint of what to do. It was the opposite: allow the change to come, keep learning. Don't lock a process, stay in motion. And if you've been following me long enough, you already know: yes, this is another course I'm taking. Turns out that's not an obsession. That's the method.

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Building an AI product/ feature? How much control should you give the AI without losing users’ trust? 👷 Too little, and you lose the value of saving time and effort. Too much, and you risk losing the user’s trust. That’s where Human in the Loop comes in. Here’s 70 seconds on what it means from the human perspective and what it can actually look like in a product to earn trust 👇 Personal note: this is my first video. EVER. Learning a new skill set is really cool but comes with a lot of overthinking. Instead of procrastinating more, I decided to treat it like a product: Share before i feel ready → get feedback from real people → learn and get better. Feedback and suggestions are very welcome 🤗 #ProductPsychology #AI #UX #ProductStratagy #HumanAIInteraction

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I'm very proud to announce that Rounds is now officially a Yuki client 🎉 Rounds runs a data-intensive AI platform on Google 𝗕𝗶𝗴𝗤𝘂𝗲𝗿𝘆 with dbt at the core of their transformation layer. With Yuki deployed directly on their dbt layer, Rounds achieved 55% savings on BigQuery compute in under 24 hours - zero model rewrites, zero re-architecture, zero performance impact. Excited to partner with the Rounds team, and Hannan Kravitz, grateful for the trust they placed in us! And proud to see Yuki delivering at this level 👏 Full technical breakdown in the comments!

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Our first phase of the AI Hackathon in the Teads Data Group was amazing yesterday. Katya Kaluzhni and I initiated the idea and led the effort to bring the hackathon from concept to reality, and it was a pleasure to see it come to life as our first unified data-group event at the new Teads. We split into mixed teams that included data engineers, data product managers, data scientists, and software engineers. Together, we brainstormed new AI-driven ideas that could simplify our day-to-day work and create meaningful value for the company. We also had an insightful learning session from our SVP Engineering - Yonatan Maman , who introduced new AI tools, shared tips and tricks for working with AI, and walked us through the MCPs we can use internally for development. I can’t wait for the next phase, where we’ll start developing our winning ideas — which will be selected by our VP Data, GRC, IT and security, Ido Tamir — and begin working on a POC. Stay tuned! #AIHackathon #innovation #Teads

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“Strong opinion, loosely held” isn’t a slogan. It’s a product decision-making method. In the new episode, Eyal David hosted Roee Froman, Product Marketing Director at Taboola. We talked about how to stop “falling in love with features” and start turning fuzzy debates into structured decisions. Key takeaways: Start from the end: define the business goal, then work backwards Standardize prioritization: you can’t compare a fully-baked feature to a half-baked one Make tradeoffs explicit: dev-to-cash, resource availability, sales cycle, upsell potential Storytelling that sells: lead with the customer’s pain, not your pitch Sometimes a single customer quote beats another dashboard Spotify: https://lnkd.in/dyPN5Yiw Youtube: https://lnkd.in/d-ep4Y64 Apple podcasts: https://lnkd.in/dJUQidk4

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Thrilled to share that we’ve recently launched Realize ID at Taboola! 💡 We built this to help advertisers turn fragmented signals across the open web into a unified view of user behavior to predict true intent. It's been amazing to be part of this project and watch it come to life. Tackling complex challenges at this scale alongside such a sharp and talented team is what makes building here so exciting. If you want to work on impactful tech with great people, come build with us! 🚀

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Taboola is laying off around 100 employees across Israel and other global locations as part of a restructuring effort, even as it continues to hire for key roles. Read more at: https://lnkd.in/guAnFhbD

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Everyone’s talking about how to build evals: how to structure them, automate them, scale them. And they’re right, it’s not simple. But there’s another step that’s just as tricky, and honestly, not discussed enough - deciding what we actually want to evaluate. What’s important for our product? What signals truly reflect improvement, not just numbers that look good on a dashboard? What feedback will actually help us build better products, not just better evals? My tip: Start from the user outcome, not the system behavior. Ask: what does “good” look like for the person using it? Then work backward - what evidence would convince you that the product is delivering that? That’s your eval. The best evals won’t just validate models, they’ll validate your product decisions. 🤔 How do you decide what to evaluate in your GenAI product? Do you feel like you’ve figured it out yet? #ProductLeadership #AIProductManagement #Evals #ProductThinking #MeasureWhatMatters

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Data science hiring is changing fast. In the upcoming DataNights cohort on managing AI & DS teams, Mor Hananovitz will join Alice Fridberg for a session on what hiring looks like in the current AI era: how interview processes are changing, what skills and signals matter now, and how managers can build strong, high-velocity data teams without relying on outdated screening patterns. Mor is Senior Manager - AI / ML at LSports, a lecturer in Generative AI at Google and Reichman AI Tech School, and a WiDS Israel community leader. Starting soon! 23.6 through 28.07 Hosted at Trigo, Ramat Gan Register here: https://lnkd.in/d7F9wUqS

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