Jeff Hammerbacher

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Jeff Hammerbacher (born 1982 or 1983) is an American data scientist. He was chief scientist and cofounder at Cloudera and later served on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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Early life

Hammerbacher was born in 1982 or 1983. He grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. His father worked at the General Motors plant and his mother was a nurse. From an early age he had an interest in numbers. [1] He studied math at Harvard University, where he became acquainted with Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg. [2] He took a year off during college and worked a variety of jobs, including stints at a bookstore and the GM assembly line alongside his father. [3]

Career

After graduation, Hammerbacher joined Bear Stearns as a quantitative analyst, working there for less than a year. [1] [3] In April 2006, he joined Facebook where he led the data team before leaving the company in 2008. [2] [4] Hammerbacher was an entrepreneur in residence at Accel Partners immediately prior to cofounding Cloudera in 2008 where he was the chief scientist. [1] [3] [5] [6]

Hammerbacher has been featured for his work in Forbes, [7] Fast Company, MIT Technology Review, [8] Harvard Business Review, [9] NY Times, [1] Bloomberg BusinessWeek [10] [2] and others. [11]

Personal life

Hammerbacher is married to the entrepreneur Halle Tecco. They jointly run an angel fund named Techammer. [12] They have a son. [13]

Selected publications

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 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.
  2. 1 2 3 Vance, Ashlee. "This Tech Bubble Is Different". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  3. 1 2 3 Jacobs, Emma (2013-05-30). "The new number crunchers". Financial Times. Retrieved 2025-03-22.
  4. ↑ "Another key early Facebook employee, Jeff Hammerbacher, is leaving the company". VentureBeat. 2008-07-10. Retrieved 2022-01-12.
  5. ↑ "Why Data God Jeffrey Hammerbacher Left Facebook To Found Cloudera". Fast Company. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  6. ↑ "Management Team". Cloudera. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  7. ↑ "#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.
  8. ↑ "Innovator Under 35: Jeff Hammerbacher, 28". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  9. ↑ Davenport, Thomas H.; Patil, D. J. (October 2012). "Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century". Harvard Business Review. 90 (10): 70–6, 128. PMID   23074866 . Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  10. ↑ "Best Tech Young Entrepreneurs 2010". Bloomberg News .
  11. ↑ "Cloudera's Jeff Hammerbacher on the ugly underbelly of Silicon Valley's startup culture". Pando. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  12. ↑ Farr, Christina (2017-12-13). "This power couple bought bitcoin in 2013, and just donated all their gains to a cancer hospital". CNBC. Retrieved 2025-03-22.
  13. ↑ Torrence, Rebecca (2024-12-18). "Halle Tecco doesn't want to be your infertility influencer". Business Insider. Retrieved 2025-03-22.


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