Jeff Hammerbacher — From data science to biomedicine

Jeff talks about building Facebook's early data team, founding Cloudera, and transitioning into biomedicine with Hammer Lab and Related Sciences.(Read more: http://wandb.me/gd-jeff-hammerbacher)---Jeff Hammerbacher is a scientist, software developer, entrepreneur, and investor. Jeff's current work focuses on drug discovery at Related Sciences, a biotech venture creation firm that he co-founded in 2020.Prior to his work at Related Sciences, Jeff was the Principal Investigator of Hammer Lab, a founder and the Chief Scientist of Cloudera, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Accel, and the manager of the Data team at Facebook.---Follow Gradient Dissent on Twitter: https://twitter.com/weights_biases---0:00 Sneak peek, intro1:13 The start of Facebook's data science team6:53 Facebook's early tech stack14:20 Early growth strategies at Facebook17:37 The origin story of Cloudera24:51 Cloudera's success, in retrospect31:05 Jeff's transition into biomedicine38:38 Immune checkpoint blockade in cancer therapy48:55 Data and techniques for biomedicine53:00 Why Jeff created Related Sciences56:32 Outro