Most of the big social media and app companies are pretty light on hard-core technology. Happy to stand on the shoulders of the tech giants that came before, many focus instead of features, design and UI. This enrages the kind of hardcore math nerds that used to rule the Valley. Well, they have a new geeky mascot: Uber. Uber only scales and survives with hardcore mathematicians on staff. Among its braniac hires are a rocket scientist, a computational neuroscientist and a nuclear physicist. (That's an actual staff photo to the left.) I have no idea what those disciplines have to do with predicting cabs arrivals and sorting cab inventory. But apparently, something.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/qWaDhUajqnY/
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