Potentially Competing Interests

David Holtz is currently an employee of the University of California, Berkeley.

D.H. is a consultant to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. D.H. was previously a consultant to and has a significant financial interest in Interviewing.io. D.H. was previously a visiting researcher at MIcrosoft. D.H. was previously a paid summer intern at Microsoft, Spotify, and Meta. D.H. was previously an employee of Airbnb. D.H. was previously an employee of Yub, and TrialPay.

D.H. was previously an advisor to Tandem, and has made angel investments through investing syndicates in Tandem, Crowdvolt, Rewind AI, Hyphen, Alan, Workstream, Mosey, Prezent, HomeRoom, Coinshift, Radical, Bobbie, and SecurityPal.

D.H. is an inventor of patents assigned to Airbnb and Microsoft.

Some of D.H.’s research is or has been funded by Microsoft, the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science.

D.H. has been an organizer of the Conference on Digital Experimentation (CODE@MIT), during which period it has been sponsored by Netflix, Booking.com, Amazon, Itaú, Eppo, and Statsig.

D.H. sometimes conducts research via both data use agreements with unnamed firms and by advising collaborators, including students, who are employees or consultants of other firms.