Facebook's PhD Title Rebrand

A story about how Chamath created the job title "Data Scientist" at Facebook to attract PhD-level talent.

"When he was at Facebook, they were trying to hire some PhD-level math and stats guy. They said 'You can come be a data analyst,' and he said 'I don't want to be a data analyst, I'm gonna go get my PhD instead.'

Chamath responded, 'We have a new field called data science, and you're one of the first to be a data scientist on earth.' He claims he invented the tag 'data science' and now it's a whole prestigious job title in Silicon Valley."

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Shaan Puri

Host of MFM

Shaan Puri is the Chairman and Co-Founder of The Milk Road. He previously worked at Twitch as a Senior Director of Product, Mobile Gaming, and Emerging Markets. He also attended Duke University.

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