“I had the privilege of working alongside Michael Kronthal for four years at Lime, and he’s one of the few research leaders who can change the trajectory of a business. Lime made enormous bets across hardware and software — vehicles deployed in dozens of countries, and the rider and operations products that ran on top of them. Michael drove clarity in those moments. He got to the truth on what users actually needed (versus what we assumed, or what was loudest in the room), then codified those insights so they didn’t live in a deck — they shaped how we designed, built, and operated. That discipline became foundational to Lime’s global business and its path to profitability. What made him a great partner wasn’t just rigor. It was courage. Michael took on the ambiguous, early-stage questions where the playbook didn’t exist yet — inventing the method alongside the answer. He reframed problems others had stared at for months, and translated user truth into business strategy in a way that gave operators, designers, engineers, and executives a shared language to make hard calls. He also made research operational — not an artifact or a quarterly readout, but a system the company could actually run on. Any team building something complex, ambiguous, or globally scaled would be lucky to have him. I’d work with him again in a heartbeat”
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