Hugh Olliphant is the Senior Director of Analytics and Data Science at Bill.com, which recently IPO’d and now has a 3.55 Billion Dollar Market Cap. Hugh has been in fintech for over 20 years and has been a multi-time founder. His first startup, G-Money sold to Paypal in the early 2000s and Hugh went on to become a senior product leader at Paypal.

I met Hugh because he was my first boss in the Bay Area and has been a tremendous mentor to me since. In this episode, we talk briefly about Product and then deep dive into the scope of data science in tech companies today, how to ask the right strategic questions to use data effectively, and how the data team has evolved over the last two decades, and how it will change again over the next ten years as data tools begin to replace jobs.