Chung: Tech giants offer seven-figure salaries to undergraduate AI recruits
Jeff Chung · Venture Capital Investor Panel: Investing in Big Data (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark) · Sep 30, 2016 · at 21:16
Jeff Chung, investor at AME Cloud Ventures, describes the intense competition and high salary offers startups face when competing with Google and Facebook for academic AI talent.
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“If you go straight to academia and try to pull them out of, even if it's, you know, undergrad, they're getting seven figure offers from Google, Facebook to go work on, whether it's core, Deep learning tech, AI, or better ad targeting.”
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