Why I went into the mortgage industry · Erik Bernhardsson
I just realized last Thursday that I have spent two full years at Better, incidentally on the same day as we announced a $15M round led by Kleiner Perkins. So it was a good point to reflect a bit and think back — what the F led me to abandon my role managing the machine learning team at Spotify? To join some random startup in the world's most boring industry? So here's my justification why I love being where I am: Follow the smart people with the good ideas Back in 2008, I joined a then unknown company called Spotify.
Why I went into the mortgage industry 2017-02-17 I just realized last Thursday that I have spent two full years at Better , incidentally on the same day as we announced a $15M round led by Kleiner Perkins. So it was a good point to reflect a bit and think back – what the F led me to abandon my role managing the machine learning team at Spotify? To join some random startup in the world's most boring industry? So here's my justification why I love being where I am: Follow the smart people with the good ideas Back in 2008, I joined a then unknown company called Spotify . At the time I had an offe
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