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.
https://twitter.com/jakeklamka
https://www.insightdatascience.com/
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.
https://twitter.com/ilikevests
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon – https://twitter.com/craigcannon
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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
