{"id":280,"date":"2013-11-13T09:54:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T22:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=280"},"modified":"2013-11-13T09:54:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T22:54:51","slug":"the-best-minds-of-my-generation-are-thinking-about-how-to-make-people-click-ads-that-sucks-jeff-hammerbacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads\u2026 That sucks.&#8221; Jeff Hammerbacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAfter a couple years at Facebook,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jhammerb\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Hammerbacher<\/a>\u00a0grew 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. \u201cThe best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,\u201d he says. \u201cThat sucks.\u201d (\u2026)<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Any generation of smart people will be drawn to where the money is, and right now it\u2019s the ad generation,&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>says\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Perlman\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Perlman<\/a>, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who once sold WebTV to Microsoft for $425 million and is now running OnLive, an online video game service. \u201d (\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>Hammerbacher: \u201cIf instead of pointing their incredible infrastructure at making people click on ads,\u201d he likes to ask, \u201cthey pointed it at great unsolved problems in science, how would the world be different today?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jhammerb\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Hammerbacher<\/a>, founder and the Chief Scientist of Cloudera, one of Facebook\u2019s first 100 employees, cited in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/bios\/Ashlee_Vance.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Ashlee Vance<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/11_17\/b4225060960537.htm\" target=\"_blank\">This Tech Bubble Is Different<\/a>, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, April 14, 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAfter a couple years at Facebook,\u00a0Jeff Hammerbacher\u00a0grew 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. \u201cThe best minds of my generation are thinking about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=280\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads\u2026 That sucks.&#8221; Jeff Hammerbacher<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5,18,17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-data-saving-lives","category-meaning","category-musings","category-power-aphorisms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}