From: Ronny Kohavi [mailto:ronnyk@microsoft.com] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 12:53 PM To: Kaushik, Avinash Subject: RE: Hippo? Hi Avinash, I'm going to use HiPPO in an internal talk here. Highest Paid Person's Opinion works better with the image of a hippo :-) I'd be happy to do the interview, but I would like to delay it by a couple of months so that I can actually talk more about what we're doing. -- Ronny -----Original Message----- From: Kaushik, Avinash [mailto:Avinash_Kaushik@intuit.com] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 11:08 AM To: Ronny Kohavi Subject: RE: Hippo? Ronny, Thanks for your email. Our internal abbreviation is HiPO. It stands for Highest Paid Opinion. :) -Avinash. PS: On a completely unrelated note, on my blog I "interview" folks I think are interesting and I would love to do an interview with you if you are interested. I call it the Ten Minutes With... series. I can email you the questions if you want and you can look at them. They would cover some stuff about you, your thoughts on experimentation and testing, anything you want to share in terms of best practices / insights on web analytics or data mining or business intelligence. You can obviously pitch something if you want. I have done a couple so far and they are at: http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/all-posts-site-map/ Please let me know. -----Original Message----- From: Ronny Kohavi [mailto:ronnyk@microsoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 1:43 PM To: Kaushik, Avinash Subject: Hippo? Hi, When we met you mentioned an acronym like HIPPO which stood for something like highest paid person in room. What was it exactly? Tx, Ronny