Jeff Hammerbacher

Jeff Hammerbacher is a data scientist as well as formerly chief scientist and cofounder at Cloudera.[1][2] In addition he was formerly on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.[3][4]

Career

Prior to co-founding Cloudera, Jeff led the data team at Facebook. Jeff Hammerbacher was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Accel Partners immediately prior to joining Cloudera. Jeff worked as a quantitative analyst on Wall Street. He earned his bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Harvard University where he was also a member of the Spee Club.

Hammerbacher has been featured for his work in Forbes,[5] Fast Company, MIT Technology Review,[6] Harvard Business Review,[7] NY Times,[3] Bloomberg BusinessWeek[8][9] and others.[10]

He has been quoted saying, "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.”[11] about product and engineering talents being employed in masses by companies such as Google and Facebook to work on advertising-related algorithms.

References
  1. "Why Data God Jeffrey Hammerbacher Left Facebook To Found Cloudera". Fast Company. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  2. "Management Team". Cloudera. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  3. Lohr, Steve (2015-03-07). "On the Case at Mount Sinai, It's Dr. Data". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  4. "Jeff Hammerbacher - The Mount Sinai Hospital". The Mount Sinai Hospital. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  5. "#2 Jeff Hammerbacher, Chief Scientist, Cloudera and DJ Patil, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Greylock Ventures - In Photos: Tim O'Reilly: The World's 7 Most Powerful Data Scientists". Forbes. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  6. "Innovator Under 35: Jeff Hammerbacher, 28". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  7. "Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century". Harvard Business Review. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  8. "Best Tech Young Entrepreneurs 2010".
  9. "This Tech Bubble Is Different". BloombergView. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  10. "Cloudera's Jeff Hammerbacher on the ugly underbelly of Silicon Valley's startup culture". Pando. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  11. Vance, Ashlee (2011-04-14). "This Tech Bubble Is Different". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2017-08-29.


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