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:
" If you want to grow good grapes, you need to manage the vineyard well—but every vineyard has different demands due to its context. "
Research in the Face of Complexity: New Sensibility for New Situations
August 27, 2025
" Cultural intelligence could be embedded as a core functionality in product development rather than static culture playbooks. "
Reimagining research: What does the field need to grow? [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]
October 16, 2024
" Sometimes hidden blockers come from power structures that prefer things stay the way they are. "
Advice for Establishing Research
December 8, 2022
" Product analytics is much more desired than it is put into use right now among qualitative researchers. "
A Research Skills Evolution
March 10, 2021
