Jeff Hammerbacher

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Jeff Hammerbacher (born 1982 or 1983) [1] is a data scientist. He was chief scientist and cofounder at Cloudera [2] [3] and later served on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. [1]

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]

Career

Prior to co-founding Cloudera, Hammerbacher led the data team at Facebook. [4] Hammerbacher was an entrepreneur in residence at Accel Partners immediately prior to joining Cloudera. [1] Hammerbacher worked as a quantitative analyst on Wall Street. [5]

Hammerbacher has been featured for his work in Forbes, [6] Fast Company, MIT Technology Review, [7] Harvard Business Review, [8] NY Times, [1] Bloomberg BusinessWeek [9] [10] and others. [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 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. ↑ "Why Data God Jeffrey Hammerbacher Left Facebook To Found Cloudera". Fast Company. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  3. ↑ "Management Team". Cloudera. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  4. ↑ "Another key early Facebook employee, Jeff Hammerbacher, is leaving the company". VentureBeat. 2008-07-10. Retrieved 2022-01-12.
  5. ↑ "On the Case at Mount Sinai, It's Dr. Data | Mount Sinai - New York". Mount Sinai Health System. 7 March 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  6. ↑ "#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.
  7. ↑ "Innovator Under 35: Jeff Hammerbacher, 28". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ "Best Tech Young Entrepreneurs 2010". Bloomberg News .
  10. ↑ "This Tech Bubble Is Different". BloombergView. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  11. ↑ "Cloudera's Jeff Hammerbacher on the ugly underbelly of Silicon Valley's startup culture". Pando. Retrieved 2016-01-04.


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