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"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." -- Jeff Hammerbacher
by sharmanaetor 13y ago
"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." -- Jeff Hammerbacher
- selmnoo 13y ago> Jeff Hammerbacher is founder and Chief Scientist of Cloudera, Assistant Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Director at Sage Bionetworks. Formerly an Entrepreneur in Residence at Accel Partners. Before Accel, [Jeff] conceived, built, and led the Data team at Facebook. Well, he could start by not working for institutions whose entire business is predicated on making people click ads.
- KrisAndrew 13y agoThis is why his words carry weight. He's probably watched capable engineers and managers go from successfully building an impressive software system to pulling out their hair because they're constantly trying to figure out human systems, which are highly variable.