Jake Klamka founded Insight. Insight provides intensive 7 week professional training fellowships in fields such as data science and data engineering. Insight was in the YC Winter 2011 batch.
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Kevin Hale is a Visiting Partner at YC. Before YC Kevin was the cofounder of Wufoo, which was funded by YC in 2006 and acquired by SurveyMonkey in 2011.
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Topics
00:00 - Kevin's intro
00:30 - Jake's intro
1:05 - Applying to YC with one product then changing it
3:30 - How Insight started
4:20 - Jake's first students and initial coursework
8:00 - Finding out what companies want from data scientists
10:00 - Picking the first class of students
11:30 - Common pitfalls for people transitioning into data science
14:30 - Types of data science roles
16:45 - What data scientists should look out for in companies
17:40 - Chuck Grimmett asks - When do you know you need to bring in seasoned data scientists?
20:00 - How Insight has scaled and changed
22:00 - What happens in the program
23:20 - Examples of a good project for a data science resume
25:50 - Will more data scientists be founders in the future?
28:00 - Teaching product
29:00 - Cleaning data
31:30 - Tools for tracking data
32:30 - Track what are you trying to optimize
35:20 - Churn and conversion
39:00 - Is there an ideal background for a data scientist?
41:00 - Which startups recruit well at Insight?
43:00 - Contracting
45:40 - Fields Jake is excited about
