2021
Emily Glassberg Sands joined Stripe in 2021 to lead data science after Stripe CTO David Singleton contacted her.
“I joined Stripe, uh, back in 2021, originally actually to lead data science, and David Singleton, Stripe's CTO, reached out.”
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Emily Glassberg Sands
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Undated
Sands speculates that a foundation model trained on financial data could beat traditional payments optimization models by roughly 100 to 200 basis points.
“it doesn't feel crazy to think that a good foundation model could outperform more traditional approaches by, I don't know, a hundred bips, 200 bips.”
Undated
As a college student, Sands ran an audit study sending four unseen scripts to hundreds of theaters while varying the author's pen name.
“some excellent playwrights donated four never-before-seen scripts. And I sent them out to hundreds of theaters and asked them, um, whether they wanted to put it on stage, why or why not?”
Undated
Sands's audit study found that the same script was less likely to be produced when its author appeared to be a woman.
“basically, I found that when purportedly written by a woman, the exact same script was less likely to be produced.”
Undated
Sands spent about eight years at Coursera, rising from an individual contributor to leading the end-to-end data team.
“I was at Coursera for about eight years. I grew from an IC to leading the end-to-end data team.”
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