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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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After a couple years at Facebook, Hammerbacher grew restless. He figured that much of the groundbreaking computer science had been done. Something else gnawed at him. Hammerbacher looked around Silicon Valley at companies like his own, Google (GOOG), and Twitter, and saw his peers wasting their talents. "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads," he says. "That sucks."
Quoted in Ashlee Vance, "This Tech Bubble Is Different", Bloomberg Businessweek (April 14, 2011). Cited in "Quote Origin: The Best Minds of My Generation Are Thinking About How To Make People Click Ads", Quote Investigator (June 12, 2017). Compare the first line of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"
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