Conor L. Myhrvold

Experience

Exit

Uber

Employee 2014 - 2019 (about 5 years)

Employee

Ignition Partners, Uber, University of Washington, Intellectual Ventures, MIT Technology Review, ReadCube, Stealth

Advisor

Chaac Ventures, Scalable Press

Education

Projects

Uber Engineering Blog

The work behind Uber Engineering.

Uber Open Source Site

Uber Open Source initiatives

Uber loves open source and contributing to the open source community.

Uber Engineering People Page

At Uber Engineering, we help move people places.

About

Achievements

Uber: Produced and/or promoted most of Uber's data science content from mid 2014 to mid 2015 (both public facing and company-wide internal, including data blog). Later, launched Uber's engineering blog & open source site under the broad umbrella of our Tech Brand, which is what most people at Uber currently associate me with, especially those who joined since fall 2015.

Pre-Uber:
A.B. Geosciences, Princeton University, 2011
S.M. Science Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012
S.M. Computational Science & Engineering, Harvard University, 2014

- Professional bylines in Scientific American Magazine, MIT Technology Review Magazine, Nature (journal), Fast Company Labs, Ars Technica, Nautilus.

- 10 issued USPTO patents & 21 published applications. (Geoscience/eng oriented)

- 3 peer-reviewed journal science & eng research publications from undergrad (2 first author, 1 corresponding author PLoS ONE, Geophysical Journal International)

See www.linkedin.com/in/myhrvold for more.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Research Writing Journalism Data Science Technical Writing. Data Visualization Data Analysis Adobe Photoshop Science Writing Program Management Project Management Technical Program Management

Locations

Seattle

Q&A

What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

The Little Red Hen

What's your favorite non-business book?

The Spotted Hyena

If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?

Throwing the javelin

What words of advice would you give your younger self?

I'm still a young pup. Ask me again in 10 years. ;0)

What's your super power?

Unsure I have it now, but it would be the power of persuasion.

What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?

Twitter, email or LinkedIn (probably in that order).

What's something you wish you had done years earlier?

Javelin

Conor L. Myhrvold

I'm mainly interested in novel applications of high tech to low tech. Formerly @uber Engineering. Working on something new. :0)